Surgery of the Hand in Washington
14 providers, $51,270 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 Washington
Across 11 surgery of the hand clinicians in Washington who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $821,176 in total — an average of $74,652 each, of which $74,075 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
- 1Joseph WoodwardKirkland$25,815
- 2Richard GreenVancouver$8,773
- 3Kyle EdwardsSpokane$4,970
- 4Dennis KaoSeattle$3,747
- 5Michael BlatnerBurien$1,508
- 6Jeffrey FriedrichSeattle$1,398
- 7Gary KegelSeattle$1,281
- 8Cynthia SuEverett$1,200
- 9James EdwardsEverett$638
- 10Erin MillerSeattle$621
- 11Jacob DideschWenatchee$540
- 12Jeffrey PrattWenatchee$429
- 13Eric ThorsonWenatchee$313
- 14Thomas BoyceLake Forest Park$38