Surgical Oncology in Rhode Island
9 providers, $542,872 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 oncology clinicians in Rhode Island
Across 8 surgical oncology clinicians in Rhode Island who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $373,348 in total — an average of $46,668 each, of which $46,668 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
- 1Steven KatzProvidence$498,985
- 2Rachel BeardProvidence$19,042
- 3Abdul Saied CalvinoProvidence$18,080
- 4Timothy MurthaProvidence$4,904
- 5Jamie PattersonWarwick$945
- 6Carl WinklerProvidence$654
- 7Michael TolkaczProvidence$197
- 8Micaela WeaverProvidence$66
- 9Charu TanejaProvidence$0