Pulmonary Disease in New Mexico
56 providers, $1,262,331 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $792.
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 pulmonary disease clinicians in New Mexico
Across 39 pulmonary disease clinicians in New Mexico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,911,187 in total — an average of $100,287 each, of which $99,874 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
- 1Lana Melendres GrovesAlbuquerque$1,095,242
- 2Luke GabeSanta Fe$47,130
- 3Michelle HarkinsAlbuquerque$24,440
- 4Viral GandhiAlbuquerque$14,458
- 5Gonzalo DiazAlamogordo$13,790
- 6Arjan FloraAlbuquerque$9,639
- 7Akshay SoodAlbuquerque$9,067
- 8Alan OrellanaLas Cruces$4,824
- 9Sivakumar NagarajuAlbuquerque$4,768
- 10Alejandro ArzabalaLas Cruces$4,087
- 11Sri Rama Krishna ParuchuriRio Rancho$4,029
- 12Ronald BronitskyAlbuquerque$3,612
- 13Vijay ChechaniRoswell$2,246
- 14Daniel NazonAlbuquerque$2,044
- 15Sarah MedrekAlbuquerque$1,881
- 16Sunkaru TourayCarlsbad$1,595
- 17James BradleyAlbuquerque$1,500
- 18Anne BostwickAlbuquerque$1,447
- 19David GreenAlbuquerque$1,317
- 20Matthew MontoyaAlbuquerque$1,156
- 21Pope MoseleyAlbuquerque$1,000
- 22Archie SanchezAlbuquerque$985
- 23Cory HicksAlbuquerque$979
- 24Abderrahmane TemmarAlbuquerque$906
- 25Stanislav BelyaevRoswell$895
- 26Helen BusbyAlbuquerque$875
- 27Salvadeeswaran Lakshmi-NarayananEspanola$800
- 28Theresa HeynekampAlbuquerque$792
- 29Arnel Anthony BobadillaClovis$791
- 30Miguel PelleranoAlbuquerque$676
- 31Michael WagnerEspanola$664
- 32Ikrita KlairLas Cruces$558
- 33Vesta SandovalAlbuquerque$452
- 34Jeffrey DorfAlbuquerque$408
- 35Souheil SamahaAlbuquerque$339
- 36Olga ReyesAlamogordo$280
- 37Elspeth SpringstedSanta Fe$275
- 38Vanessa JosefAlbuquerque$242
- 39Sara AssafAlbuquerque$240
- 40Swati GulatiAlbuquerque$235
- 41Hayley IsraelAlbuquerque$218
- 42Matthew CroweSanta Fe$207
- 43Michael LuciaSanta Fe$204
- 44Elyce SheehanAlbuquerque$175
- 45James DeanAlbuquerque$160
- 46Bruce ShafferSanta Fe$132
- 47Oleh HnatiukAlbuquerque$118
- 48Dona UpsonAlbuquerque$105
- 49Betty ChangAlbuquerque$105
- 50Joseph KorahFarmington$83
- 51Craig JensenAlbuquerque$64
- 52Wolfgang Schmidt-NowaraSanta Fe$48
- 53Simran KenthAlbuquerque$34
- 54Donald PorterAlbuquerque$15
- 55Jeffrey GodwinAlbuquerque$0
- 56Franklin MillerLas Vegas$0