Sports Medicine in Georgia
168 providers, $6,006,550 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $903.
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 Georgia
Across 118 sports medicine clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $11,935,029 in total — an average of $101,144 each, of which $87,912 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
- 1John XerogeanesAtlanta$4,016,654
- 2Joseph BurnsAlpharetta$375,602
- 3Sameh LabibBrookhaven$279,819
- 4Spero KarasAtlanta$137,019
- 5Xavier DuraldeAtlanta$76,603
- 6Thomas MyersAtlanta$71,948
- 7Robert O'ConnellCarrollton$69,037
- 8Elan GolanSnellville$56,892
- 9Taylor PolanderJesup$47,931
- 10Anthony CantrellCanton$47,098
- 11Jacob StirtonBlairsville$42,098
- 12Jacob DunnColumbus$41,573
- 13Jennifer BlandaMarietta$36,184
- 14Charles FrybergerFayetteville$35,794
- 15Kevin CharronCarrollton$33,008
- 16Phillip LangerAtlanta$32,820
- 17Richard DanilkowiczAtlanta$31,993
- 18Austin LooneyAtlanta$29,174
- 19Dipal Chatterjee-BerfroidColumbus$26,670
- 20Steven RayappaStockbridge$24,060
- 21James KercherAtlanta$23,609
- 22Bradley YoungColumbus$23,497
- 23Nilay PatelHiram$21,438
- 24Cory MesserschmidtThomasville$20,373
- 25James FrixDalton$19,275
- 26Kyle HammondAtlanta$18,009
- 27Donald ColantonioFt. Eisenhower$16,659
- 28Charles GartenAtlanta$15,996
- 29Kate HeinleinCovington$14,579
- 30Timothy MaughonDuluth$13,800
- 31Mark SakrAlpharetta$13,509
- 32Mathew PomboDuluth$13,319
- 33Lindsay BarreraMacon$13,281
- 34Manish NoticewalaDouglasville$12,899
- 35Rachel KushnerBuford$12,708
- 36Champ BakerColumbus$12,452
- 37Augustine ConduahLithonia$11,579
- 38Zaneb YaseenWarner Robins$11,545
- 39David HunterAugusta$10,783
- 40Abdulaziz KhurshedColumbus$10,472
- 41Linus IgbokweLawrenceville$10,393
- 42John KoprivaAtlanta$10,323
- 43Brian MorganJohns Creek$9,572
- 44Frederick FlandryColumbus$9,210
- 45Shomari RuffinCarrollton$8,912
- 46Maxwell VogelAugusta$8,253
- 47Stephen JohnsonAthens$6,750
- 48Robert ThornsberryMacon$6,316
- 49Anna PruittWinder$6,044
- 50Jessica BilottaMarietta$5,725
- 51Michael TuckerColumbus$5,684
- 52Joseph PowersBuford$5,313
- 53David WoodburyGainesville$5,279
- 54Prathap JayaramAtlanta$4,625
- 55Michael KuczmanskiMarietta$3,944
- 56Peter SymbasAtlanta$3,940
- 57Robert HancockAthens$3,598
- 58Keyvan GanzAtlanta$3,308
- 59Ralph MoralesBrunswick$3,105
- 60Gregory KelleyBrunswick$3,104