Sports Medicine in Washington
132 providers, $1,157,862 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $334.
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 Washington
Across 106 sports medicine clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,347,960 in total — an average of $59,886 each, of which $52,935 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
- 1Geoffrey HiggsProsser$569,328
- 2Nicholas KennedyYakima$112,189
- 3Nicholas VaudreuilEverett$49,410
- 4Adam PourchoSeattle$38,091
- 5Christopher WahlIssaquah$37,275
- 6Nicholas WilcoxMarysville$36,276
- 7Mathew TaylorPullman$35,628
- 8Brandon NudelmanBellevue$31,661
- 9Judd FitzgeraldKennewick$14,256
- 10Taylor BuuckSeattle$13,632
- 11Winston WarmeSeattle$12,178
- 12Thomas ByrnesSeattle$11,975
- 13Ryan VellingaArlington$10,861
- 14Ghislaine RobertRedmond$10,285
- 15David CoonsTacoma$9,138
- 16Nels SampatacosGig Harbor$9,116
- 17Ahmad NamousSeattle$8,914
- 18Albert GeeSeattle$8,890
- 19Phillip HenningSeattle$8,764
- 20Jonathan HodaxSeattle$7,739
- 21Christopher HawkinsCentralia$6,981
- 22Richard RouxYakima$6,520
- 23Brett HallArlington$6,336
- 24Taylor FowersKirkland$6,058
- 25Brendan MasiniTacoma$5,949
- 26Sean HalomanRenton$5,837
- 27Jared AllredSpokane$5,162
- 28Thomas KennedyYakima$4,972
- 29Gerard BeneckiAuburn$4,581
- 30Emily CooperSeattle$4,480
- 31David ImpastatoVancouver$4,450
- 32Paul HaederBellingham$3,927
- 33Clifford HouEverett$3,552
- 34John HungPuyallup$3,438
- 35Ashwin RaoSeattle$3,285
- 36Tycho KerstenSpokane$2,955
- 37Michael BattagliaRenton$2,765
- 38Christopher AndersonSpokane Valley$2,580
- 39James WymanPuyallup$2,436
- 40Gary ChimesBellevue$2,121
- 41Matthew GriersonSeattle$1,926
- 42Andrew GomezBellevue$1,895
- 43Paul ReynoldsEverett$1,848
- 44Thomas SkalleyEverett$1,810
- 45Eric AndersonSpokane$1,723
- 46David BrownOlympia$1,678
- 47Abimbolu MakindeBothell$1,599
- 48Mark WagnerSeattle$1,580
- 49Chad MarionSeattle$1,389
- 50Linda OhSeattle$1,212
- 51Brett DegooyerMoses Lake$1,124
- 52David HonariBellevue$1,121
- 53David LessmanRenton$1,029
- 54William MageeColville$978
- 55Laura FralichSpokane$899
- 56Jeffrey PentekBainbridge Island$847
- 57Shelley RingoPullman$774
- 58Christopher van HofwegenBellingham$756
- 59Justis StolzBellingham$743
- 60Alex WangRenton$676