Surgery of the Hand in Oklahoma
11 providers, $48,085 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 Oklahoma
Across 10 surgery of the hand clinicians in Oklahoma who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,347,475 in total — an average of $134,747 each, of which $116,638 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
- 1Rachel HeinOklahoma City$16,615
- 2David MokhteeTulsa$8,592
- 3Zachary HurwitzEdmond$8,574
- 4Elizabeth WeldinTulsa$4,109
- 5Margaret PorembskiOklahoma City$3,322
- 6Carolyn BergTulsa$2,408
- 7Jeffrey StrombergTulsa$1,670
- 8Daron HittOklahoma City$1,436
- 9Robert UnsellOklahoma City$817
- 10Stephen MihalskyEdmond$303
- 11Ashok KrishnamurthyOklahoma City$239