Plastic Surgery in Tennessee
89 providers, $49,676,834 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,631.
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 Tennessee
Across 28 plastic surgery clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,605,372 in total — an average of $378,763 each, of which $378,763 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
- 1George MaxwellNashville$48,278,001
- 2Gaurav BhartiJohnson City$526,890
- 3Jacob UngerNashville$153,360
- 4Kristina OshaughnessyFranklin$142,452
- 5Brian TierneyNashville$51,925
- 6David ReathKnoxville$45,789
- 7James WendelNashville$36,379
- 8Ronald GilmerNashville$36,089
- 9Kent HigdonFranklin$35,722
- 10Steven BengelsdorfFranklin$35,367
- 11Megan VucovichNashville$28,719
- 12Nneamaka NwubahBrentwood$22,202
- 13Nicholas TarolaMurfreesboro$20,889
- 14Moneim ElomeiriMemphis$17,137
- 15Mary GingrassNashville$15,445
- 16Carey CampbellMemphis$15,095
- 17Stephen BeckerAlcoa$15,001
- 18Jose Ramirez GavidiaFranklin$11,458
- 19Melinda HawsNashville$10,344
- 20Konrad SarosiekFranklin$9,961
- 21Robin EvansMemphis$8,848
- 22Stefanos BoukovalasKnoxville$7,549
- 23Nathan BroughtFranklin$7,439
- 24Megan JackKnoxville$7,038
- 25Dean KletoKnoxville$6,906
- 26Kathleen HerbigKnoxville$6,800
- 27Neumon GoshornGermantown$6,779
- 28Paul PapillionFranklin$6,642
- 29Robert ChandlerMemphis$6,238
- 30Leland WebbMurfreesboro$6,105
- 31Michael GolinkoNashville$6,046
- 32Steven SmithKnoxville$5,256
- 33Donald GriffinNashville$4,917
- 34David KerekesKnoxville$4,856
- 35Gregory PastrickKingsport$4,803
- 36Marshall YellenJackson$4,772
- 37Alexander NeinNashville$4,704
- 38Jim BrantnerJohnson City$4,594
- 39Olivia MadanNashville$4,517
- 40Ellis TavinMemphis$4,046
- 41Amie MillerMemphis$3,983
- 42Stephane BraunNashville$3,440
- 43Melissa KathMemphis$2,854
- 44Fernando DomingoChattanooga$2,837
- 45Margaret FergusonNashville$2,631
- 46Philip FlemingBrentwood$2,377
- 47Stacy StephensonKnoxville$2,247
- 48Christopher ChaseChattanooga$2,170
- 49Peter AldeaMemphis$2,130
- 50Jay LucasKnoxville$1,799
- 51John RosdeutscherBrentwood$1,560
- 52Mark PetersGermantown$1,462
- 53Chadwell RobbinsNashville$1,450
- 54Michael HuenekeNashville$1,402
- 55William AdamsMemphis$1,282
- 56John HershmanJohnson City$1,150
- 57Sonia AlvarezMemphis$1,128
- 58Susan OrraNashville$1,061
- 59Ted BeharFranklin$1,000
- 60Mark LeechChattanooga$953