Primary Care in Rhode Island
20 providers, $97,290 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $263.
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 Rhode Island
Across 9 primary care clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $125,395 in total — an average of $13,933 each, of which $13,933 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
- 1Michael AnthonyProvidence$79,881
- 2Pamela LutesNarragansett$7,494
- 3Morgan-Jean HiraldoProvidence$3,710
- 4Kristina BurtonGreenville$1,900
- 5Jessica DuncanProvidence$865
- 6Stephanne ProskeProvidence$664
- 7Temperance TaylorPawtucket$509
- 8Sharon GarberProvidence$444
- 9Jillian DegraideCranston$349
- 10Ashton LongJohnston$263
- 11Sally DavidsonRiverside$222
- 12Michael SternProvidence$213
- 13Laurie AndersonSmithfield$186
- 14Patricia CioeRiverside$185
- 15Jamil HalabyEast Providence$184
- 16Cassandra GaffneySmithfield$125
- 17Nichole WilsonProvidence$35
- 18Margaret KoehlerProvidence$24
- 19Erin BernardoProvidence$20
- 20Olayide WilliamsLincoln$18