Surgical Critical Care in Kansas
9 providers, $18,924 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 Kansas
Across 6 surgical critical care clinicians in Kansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $386,931 in total — an average of $64,489 each, of which $64,489 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
- 1Andrea HuffordOverland Park$6,211
- 2Sean NixOverland Park$4,783
- 3Donald VasquezWichita$2,891
- 4Robert SliterWichita$2,065
- 5James HarrisKansas City$1,428
- 6Wade StinsonTopeka$693
- 7Rebecca FergusonKansas City$336
- 8Olabisi SheppardHays$325
- 9Matthew ByrnesWichita$192