Surgical Critical Care in Oklahoma
17 providers, $56,087 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 Oklahoma
Across 13 surgical critical care clinicians in Oklahoma who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,042,507 in total — an average of $80,193 each, of which $80,193 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
- 1Nathan PowellTulsa$21,561
- 2Michael CharlesTulsa$8,845
- 3Aaron AlvaradoTulsa$6,645
- 4Joseph LoveOklahoma City$4,315
- 5Kerri-Anne VlamingTulsa$3,321
- 6John Marc ShellenbergerTulsa$2,982
- 7Debra VanzandtTulsa$1,669
- 8Jared SheppardTulsa$1,255
- 9Alex OlsenTulsa$1,183
- 10Robert GoodwinTulsa$1,093
- 11Joseph FugaroTulsa$912
- 12Keith ChamplinTulsa$740
- 13Daniel KimOklahoma City$658
- 14Chance NicholsOklahoma City$316
- 15Rachel TylerTulsa$313
- 16Jason LeesOklahoma City$169
- 17Bradley PhillipsOklahoma City$113