Primary Podiatric Medicine in Tennessee
8 providers, $7,325 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 podiatric medicine clinicians in Tennessee
Across 5 primary podiatric medicine clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,167,931 in total — an average of $433,586 each, of which $398,670 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
- 1Lawrence BurnsNashville$4,179
- 2Bruce BoydSavannah$1,206
- 3Robert SpaldingSignal Mountain$685
- 4Vincent LongobardoCrossville$542
- 5Richard EbyChattanooga$298
- 6Bill VuongDayton$228
- 7Gary MantellMemphis$109
- 8Robert Mac ArthurColumbia$78