Surgery of the Hand in Pennsylvania
20 providers, $157,661 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,182.
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 Pennsylvania
Across 16 surgery of the hand clinicians in Pennsylvania who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,353,786 in total — an average of $147,112 each, of which $131,120 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
- 1Joel KlenaDanville$55,863
- 2Robert KangPittsburgh$27,056
- 3Jason YooPittsburgh$19,430
- 4Nathan MillerAllentown$10,574
- 5Scott EisenhuthState College$10,194
- 6Alexander SpiessTrafford$7,485
- 7Eugene ParkPhiladelphia$5,895
- 8Dana LavantureSayre$5,419
- 9Debra BournePittsburgh$3,708
- 10Christopher LincoskiState College$3,182
- 11George ZavitsanosFort Washington$2,198
- 12Glen JacobWilkes-Barre$1,561
- 13Raymond CaponePittsburgh$1,352
- 14Francis DeloneMedia$1,259
- 15Thomas JacobMedia$777
- 16Julia MayberryWynnewood$727
- 17William KirkpatrickPhiladelphia$491
- 18John JenningsSellersville$257
- 19Vasanth KotamartiPittsburgh$210
- 20John IngrahamHershey$21