Surgery of the Hand in Maryland
9 providers, $38,515 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 surgery of the hand clinicians in Maryland
Across 6 surgery of the hand clinicians in Maryland who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,311,297 in total — an average of $218,549 each, of which $206,230 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
- 1Brian JanzCatonsville$16,773
- 2Aviram GiladiBaltimore$13,630
- 3Brian ChoOwings Mills$2,224
- 4Ean SaberskiBethesda$1,709
- 5Cassandra DriscollBethesda$1,611
- 6Scott LifchezBaltimore$1,105
- 7James HigginsBaltimore$830
- 8Bruce WolockTowson$544
- 9James CarltonBaltimore$89