Surgery in AE
15 providers, $14,802 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 clinicians in AE
Across 2 surgery clinicians in AE who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $115,208 in total — an average of $57,604 each, of which $57,604 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
- 1James FlintFpo$6,231
- 2George FulghumApo$3,814
- 3Elizabeth BarberaApo$2,368
- 4Lydia PiperApo$590
- 5Samy RamadanApo$557
- 6Jason BabcockApo$403
- 7Kristina KrumposApo$291
- 8Brooke EngelmanApo$189
- 9Zia DehqanzadaApo$109
- 10Katherine CameronApo$95
- 11Daniel HansenApo$53
- 12Nicole LaferriereApo$52
- 13Christopher ForanFpo$18
- 14Sarah ThomasApo$17
- 15Maeghan CiampaApo$16