Surgery in Rhode Island
108 providers, $1,232,695 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,160.
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 Rhode Island
Across 68 surgery clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,093,066 in total — an average of $45,486 each, of which $45,486 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
- 1Michael RocchioJamestown$593,973
- 2Joseph EspatProvidence$159,190
- 3Marcoandrea GiorgiProvidence$62,945
- 4John PhillipJohnston$52,541
- 5Andrew LuhrsProvidence$50,900
- 6Jordan HebertNewport$30,932
- 7Taher GulamhuseinWarwick$25,889
- 8Tristen ChunProvidence$22,340
- 9William CioffiProvidence$17,970
- 10Jeannine GiovanniJohnston$16,604
- 11Guy LancellottiWarwick$16,232
- 12Philip PhilipsWoonsocket$14,294
- 13Ponnandai SomasundarProvidence$10,355
- 14Shakti RauWarwick$9,227
- 15Michael ConnollyProvidence$8,869
- 16Dieter PohlJohnston$7,583
- 17Erin FullerProvidence$7,342
- 18Thach PhamProvidence$7,255
- 19David EdmonsonProvidence$6,867
- 20Brent EmighProvidence$6,466
- 21Peter GillPawtucket$5,566
- 22Stephen MiglioriProvidence$5,208
- 23Sierra GrassoWoonsocket$4,954
- 24Tareq KheirbekProvidence$4,723
- 25David LeenenProvidence$4,718
- 26Dipan PatelProvidence$4,098
- 27Prerna LadhaProvidence$3,772
- 28Sivamainthan VithiananthanProvidence$3,639
- 29Guy NicastriWarwick$3,636
- 30Subhashini AylooProvidence$3,610
- 31Charles BaldiProvidence$3,002
- 32Colette WhitbyWoonsocket$2,974
- 33Joshua CohenProvidence$2,955
- 34Leonid CherkasskyProvidence$2,900
- 35Michael LinJohnston$2,635
- 36Andrew TaitanoProvidence$2,500
- 37Gerald MarsocciCranston$2,499
- 38David CloutierProvidence$2,470
- 39Annet KuruvillaProvidence$2,348
- 40Holden SpivakProvidence$2,322
- 41Alexander PhilipsWoonsocket$2,147
- 42Shennel GelinWakefield$1,923
- 43Joseph BradyWarwick$1,914
- 44Alicia AlterioProvidence$1,829
- 45David HeffernanProvidence$1,669
- 46Todd StaffordProvidence$1,570
- 47George BaisonWarwick$1,551
- 48Paul MorrisseyProvidence$1,407
- 49Stanley EwalaProvidence$1,396
- 50Zachary WaldmanProvidence$1,327
- 51Daniel ChristianJohnston$1,282
- 52Cody NessProvidence$1,222
- 53Ayana Allard-PicouProvidence$1,191
- 54Sanford EdwardsWesterly$1,160
- 55Eva KoellerProvidence$1,093
- 56Madigan StanleyProvidence$989
- 57Sarah CriddleProvidence$945
- 58Beth RyderProvidence$808
- 59R James KonessProvidence$560
- 60Julia RozenbergProvidence$524