Surgical Critical Care in Alabama
10 providers, $38,170 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 surgical critical care clinicians in Alabama
Across 9 surgical critical care clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $387,908 in total — an average of $43,101 each, of which $43,101 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
- 1Roberto TaareaHuntsville$17,983
- 2Rindi UhlichBirmingham$6,259
- 3Steven MillerMobile$5,698
- 4Jon SimmonsMobile$3,115
- 5Thomas CapassoMobile$1,790
- 6Ashley WilliamsMobile$1,555
- 7Richard MullinsMontgomery$1,159
- 8Michael ChangMobile$297
- 9Donna DyessMobile$225
- 10Sabrina GoddardBirmingham$90