Procedural Dermatology in Texas
25 providers, $347,668 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,420.
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 Texas
Across 12 procedural dermatology clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,285,072 in total — an average of $523,756 each, of which $446,605 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
- 1Daniel FriedmannAustin$146,385
- 2Liet leKingwood$90,061
- 3Jean-Denis BoucherLive Oak$20,114
- 4Tho NguyenHurst$15,841
- 5Douglas FarrisHurst$15,699
- 6Robert OchsSan Antonio$11,465
- 7Farhad NiroomandDallas$9,182
- 8Laura SearsDallas$7,771
- 9Georganna DavisHouston$7,758
- 10Paige HoyerEl Campo$4,720
- 11Kris HowardOdessa$3,036
- 12Anthony CagliaRichardson$2,829
- 13Dennis NewtonLewisville$2,420
- 14Rick WilsonPlano$1,944
- 15Daniel LaddAustin$1,861
- 16Melanie RuizBoerne$1,747
- 17Grace AyandibuWichita Falls$1,128
- 18Michael LehmanLubbock$1,018
- 19David RaimerGalveston$853
- 20Mona ZaherSugar Land$689
- 21Kathryn DuplantisDallas$399
- 22Ryan AhernCollege Station$374
- 23Carolyn LydeLewisville$253
- 24Lala StawowySan Antonio$95
- 25Catherine KowalewskiSan Antonio$30