Procedural Dermatology in Massachusetts
10 providers, $25,610 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 procedural dermatology clinicians in Massachusetts
Across 7 procedural dermatology clinicians in Massachusetts who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,143,831 in total — an average of $163,404 each, of which $163,404 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
- 1Karen CarreiroFall River$5,999
- 2Nellie KonnikovBoston$5,382
- 3Jay GoldsteinNatick$3,492
- 4Catherine DigiorgioBoston$3,074
- 5Dennis PortoMilford$2,611
- 6Frank VleugelsBoston$2,178
- 7Fern WirthWellesley$1,583
- 8Mary GibneyNorth Andover$1,114
- 9Frederick GibsonJamaica Plain$121
- 10Kathleen GrecoWinchester$57