Sports Medicine in Alaska
14 providers, $67,610 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 sports medicine clinicians in Alaska
Across 10 sports medicine clinicians in Alaska who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,312,288 in total — an average of $131,229 each, of which $123,041 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
- 1Erik MooreAnchorage$29,488
- 2Jackson StaggersAnchorage$23,930
- 3Mark WadeFairbanks$6,823
- 4Herbert BoteSoldotna$1,951
- 5Erik BergerSoldotna$1,354
- 6James AlexAnchorage$1,299
- 7Elisha PowellAnchorage$1,023
- 8Jared KirkhamAnchorage$562
- 9Nancy GreenwellAnchorage$484
- 10Jeffrey MooreAnchorage$454
- 11Christina DarbyAnchorage$125
- 12Mark TuccilloPetersburg$78
- 13Robert MartinWasilla$24
- 14Michael ChavezKlawock$16