Primary Care in Alaska
11 providers, $4,833 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 primary care clinicians in Alaska
Across 2 primary care clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $75,980 in total — an average of $37,990 each, of which $37,990 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
- 1Ginger HessWasilla$1,527
- 2Melanie KimmeryWasilla$1,409
- 3Brianna ClendeninAnchorage$1,095
- 4Kathleen CraftonEagle River$570
- 5Patricia McDonaldAnchorage$49
- 6Kathryn McNattSoldotna$43
- 7Sabrina YoderWasilla$41
- 8Bradelle PadonJuneau$38
- 9Tina TraberAnchorage$22
- 10Susan OliverAnchorage$20
- 11Kimberly CarterAnchorage$19