Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) in New Mexico
18 providers, $164,736 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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in New Mexico
Across 9 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in New Mexico who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $757,051 in total — an average of $84,117 each, of which $84,117 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
- 1Fenton McCarthyAlbuquerque$41,261
- 2Kevin RichardsonAlbuquerque$36,763
- 3Luis CerdaAlbuquerque$20,720
- 4David JoyceAlbuquerque$19,464
- 5Dana BoothAlbuquerque$13,235
- 6Robert PostonLas Cruces$10,145
- 7Jennifer NishimuraAlbuquerque$8,568
- 8Abdul QureshiCarlsbad$4,103
- 9William SteinAlbuquerque$3,817
- 10Daniel Maoz-MetzlAlbuquerque$3,419
- 11Brian CastlemainAlbuquerque$2,198
- 12Jesus EnriquezAlbuquerque$487
- 13Leah McKinnonAlbuquerque$268
- 14Said YassinAlbuquerque$172
- 15Jorge WernlyAlbuquerque$47
- 16William DeaneAlbuquerque$25
- 17Richard GeretyAlbuquerque$25
- 18Stuart PettAlbuquerque$19