Surgery of the Hand in Virginia
11 providers, $52,488 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 Virginia
Across 8 surgery of the hand clinicians in Virginia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,083,148 in total — an average of $135,393 each, of which $132,798 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
- 1Wyndell MerrittHenrico$12,739
- 2Wayne ChenVirginia Beach$9,617
- 3Hatcher CoxSalem$6,321
- 4Peter ThomasAlexandria$5,595
- 5Santiago RodriguezNorfolk$5,391
- 6Alexander CroogMc Lean$4,078
- 7David GalpernRichmond$3,905
- 8Ramon de JesusNorfolk$3,842
- 9Arjun DhayalanChesapeake$444
- 10Stephen LeibovicRichmond$436
- 11Raymond MorganCharlottesville$118