Plastic Surgery in Hawaii
20 providers, $86,302 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,955.
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 clinicians in Hawaii
Across 7 plastic surgery clinicians in Hawaii who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $291,842 in total — an average of $41,692 each, of which $41,692 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
- 1Stephen SchlesingerKahului$28,226
- 2Jeffrey HealyAiea$17,442
- 3Kevin DieffenbachAiea$6,131
- 4Leonard YuKahului$5,616
- 5Robert PetersonHonolulu$4,729
- 6Paul FaringerHonolulu$4,537
- 7Frank FangKailua$4,116
- 8Thomas CrabtreeKailua$3,335
- 9Aric AghayanKaneohe Bay$3,285
- 10Jon IveyKihei$2,955
- 11Scott NishikawaHonolulu$1,156
- 12David ChoHonolulu$1,019
- 13Kenneth KaoHonolulu$996
- 14Carl DelosreyesHonolulu$885
- 15Terri CarlsonTripler Army Medical Center$497
- 16Gregory CaputyHonolulu$433
- 17Erik CrimanTripler Army Medical Center$421
- 18Jamie JohnsonHilo$341
- 19Michael PharaonHonolulu$113
- 20John ImadaHonolulu$69