Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck in Tennessee
15 providers, $161,006 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments.
Ranking high here usually means a consulting or royalty arrangement, not wrongdoing. Payments to device inventors and trial investigators are legal, disclosed, and concentrated in a small number of people — which is exactly why a list like this has a steep top and a long flat tail.
What Medicare pays plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Tennessee
Across 10 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $939,581 in total — an average of $93,958 each, of which $93,958 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. The rest is what Medicare allowed for services these clinicians billed — Original Medicare fee-for-service only. It excludes Medicare Advantage, which now covers more than half of Medicare enrollees, along with Medicaid and every commercial insurer, so for most clinicians it is a fraction of their practice. It is also gross revenue: staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums all come out of it before anyone is paid. Anyone quoting a figure like this as physician pay is misreading it.
Ranked by reported payments
- 1Jason HallKnoxville$68,302
- 2James ShireChattanooga$32,870
- 3Eben RosenthalNashville$22,732
- 4James BekenyNashville$9,597
- 5Elizabeth PerkinsNashville$9,435
- 6Howard HammerDickson$7,493
- 7Marc FeeleyNashville$2,512
- 8Richard DepersioPowell$2,508
- 9Samuel SmithMemphis$2,232
- 10Charles SewallOak Ridge$1,845
- 11Jacqueline BoothOak Ridge$792
- 12John HodgesMemphis$578
- 13John JerniganOak Ridge$43
- 14William StewartColumbia$37
- 15Domenic CanonicoTullahoma$29