Transplant Hepatology in North Carolina
10 providers, $208,370 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 transplant hepatology clinicians in North Carolina
Across 8 transplant hepatology clinicians in North Carolina who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $211,296 in total — an average of $26,412 each, of which $26,412 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
- 1Mark RussoGreensboro$113,424
- 2Andrew DelemosCharlotte$44,159
- 3Neil ShahChapel Hill$28,964
- 4Dianna HowardWinston Salem$17,986
- 5Natasha AdlakhaHuntersville$1,404
- 6Sasha Deutsch-LinkChapel Hill$1,227
- 7Paul SchmeltzerCharlotte$497
- 8Rafael OrnelasDurham$401
- 9Zachariah McIverWinston Salem$263
- 10Beth FloydDurham$45