Surgical Critical Care in Texas
104 providers, $3,381,061 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,833.
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 Texas
Across 83 surgical critical care clinicians in Texas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,695,680 in total — an average of $32,478 each, of which $32,478 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
- 1Samir AwadHouston$1,576,630
- 2Sharmilla DissanaikeLubbock$843,738
- 3Robert SouthardHouston$215,368
- 4Rondel AlbaradoHouston$196,630
- 5Anthony CahillWaco$42,817
- 6Michael CorneilleSan Antonio$34,688
- 7Christopher CouchTyler$30,295
- 8Ryan KostkaFort Worth$29,948
- 9Daniel BonvilleHouston$28,089
- 10Caesar RicciFort Worth$27,262
- 11Ashleigh FontenotFort Worth$25,516
- 12Mohammad FrotanDallas$23,361
- 13John GriswoldLubbock$21,057
- 14Kevin PeiCollege Station$20,347
- 15Rahul RasheedFort Worth$15,403
- 16Martin ZielinskiHouston$13,955
- 17Subhasis ChatterjeeHouston$12,865
- 18Melissa StewartHouston$12,201
- 19Alexi BloomHouston$11,740
- 20Michelle HagopianFort Worth$11,318
- 21Jeffrey SkubicMcAllen$10,686
- 22Jacob GlaserTemple$10,043
- 23Celia LedetHouston$9,461
- 24Todd HuzarHouston$8,608
- 25Duraid YounanEl Paso$8,297
- 26Rejesh GandhiFort Worth$8,083
- 27Natasha BeckerHouston$7,672
- 28Tiffany LaskyEl Paso$7,657
- 29Sarah ShawFort Worth$6,980
- 30Drew FarmerFt Worth$6,868
- 31Rosemarie RobledoDenton$5,827
- 32Chukwuma ApakamaPlano$5,269
- 33Philip EdmundsonDallas$5,006
- 34Tommy BrownFort Sam Houston$4,956
- 35Tabitha ThreattLubbock$4,749
- 36Scott NorwoodTyler$4,445
- 37Matthew ElsonDallas$4,108
- 38James GallagherGalveston$4,055
- 39Alexandra Hahn WaldenmaierDallas$3,622
- 40Yesenia Rojas-KhalilHouston$3,226
- 41Dang PhamPasadena$3,028
- 42Roy EdwardsMcAllen$2,877
- 43Jaromir KohoutHouston$2,703
- 44Jayson AydelotteAustin$2,580
- 45Maria AhmadDallas$2,537
- 46Conner McDanielDallas$2,382
- 47David DuvallDallas$2,287
- 48Lerone SimpsonMcAllen$2,278
- 49Emily SpradleyTemple$2,105
- 50Christopher CraneSan Antonio$2,035
- 51Christopher DaiFort Worth$1,986
- 52Bradley RittenhouseFort Sam Houston$1,833
- 53Joshua CrappsAustin$1,829
- 54Daniel ZieglerFort Worth$1,778
- 55Jennifer LeonardHouston$1,677
- 56Matthew PerrymanFort Worth$1,514
- 57Giang QuachHouston$1,339
- 58Laura MooreHouston$1,230
- 59Octavio GarciaCorpus Christi$1,211
- 60Chase KnickerbockerDallas$1,171