Surgery in AP
12 providers, $18,245 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 AP
Across 3 surgery clinicians in AP who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $155,387 in total — an average of $51,796 each, of which $51,796 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
- 1Harry AubinApo$8,344
- 2Kevin PhelanApo$5,039
- 3Aaron LaneApo$2,887
- 4Caroline CahillFpo$607
- 5Justin LarocqueApo$313
- 6David SamahaFpo$308
- 7Benjamin DuddyApo$272
- 8Christopher NgApo$174
- 9Joy LiangApo$125
- 10Max ChaeApo$91
- 11William IsomFpo$57
- 12Mary BokenkampFpo$27