Primary Care in Washington
94 providers, $140,792 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $190.
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 Washington
Across 53 primary care clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,816,759 in total — an average of $34,278 each, of which $32,807 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
- 1Abubakar Abdul-RahmanSeattle$26,973
- 2Junghee CheLakewood$20,264
- 3Margaret StewartMill Creek$14,156
- 4Rhonna LeeSpokane$12,818
- 5Joan ZimmerSpokane$11,671
- 6Kimberly RianoOlympia$7,562
- 7James PittmanSpokane$6,437
- 8Shannon ZawilskiPuyallup$3,996
- 9Laura RaykowskiMontesano$3,125
- 10Sara AppudorayPuyallup$2,566
- 11Lauren BerglindSilverdale$2,061
- 12Bridget NoorishadLynnwood$1,955
- 13Jessica NobleKennewick$1,718
- 14Inbok WeeLakewood$1,631
- 15Cattleya NeryChehalis$1,563
- 16Caroline SensibaPuyallup$1,411
- 17Thomas EthertonOlympia$1,339
- 18Laurel DimlerSpokane Valley$1,179
- 19Jinhee BinderMill Creek$1,131
- 20James WinegartSpokane$1,094
- 21Stephanie DoudDeer Park$1,088
- 22Jessica LeeSeattle$881
- 23Kyunghee SeoLakewood$871
- 24Amy ScottYakima$827
- 25Maria Engelhardt-ParalesTacoma$792
- 26Sanja ProszekSpokane Valley$775
- 27Alejandra RamosBenton City$766
- 28Nicole JohnsenBellevue$574
- 29Patrick MurphyNorth Bend$556
- 30Kelli HanksLongview$534
- 31Laure LarsenClarkston$509
- 32Vinicia ConwayTacoma$492
- 33Kristin BurnsKent$488
- 34Jaimee KartchnerKennewick$420
- 35Grace MwangiTacoma$389
- 36Tonjia JonesSelah$318
- 37Christina MorseSpokane Valley$310
- 38Omar SaineRenton$308
- 39Amy BehlerSpokane Valley$269
- 40Karen ToshCentralia$255
- 41Chelsee HendersonSeattle$233
- 42Mariena MearsBuckley$233
- 43Njui Tabi Ngwi TanyiYakima$217
- 44Catherine ShuttyGig Harbor$213
- 45Angela KlementsonRenton$198
- 46Stella DolgnerOmak$192
- 47Kendra FitzpatrickRenton$190
- 48Brianne McQuillanOlympia$166
- 49Joanne WallisVancouver$151
- 50Dawda ChamRenton$149
- 51Elizabeth HagenLynnwood$148
- 52Christi NanceSpokane Valley$139
- 53Muna OsmanAuburn$135
- 54Jacklyn SpiegelbergSeattle$132
- 55Janis WhiteheadPomeroy$131
- 56Michelle BurrellSpokane$131
- 57Nneka IwuohaAuburn$125
- 58Brandon SmithSammamish$121
- 59Brooke TambleKirkland$110
- 60Kynnera StephensonTacoma$109