Transplant Surgery in District of Columbia
16 providers, $471,050 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 surgery clinicians in District of Columbia
Across 12 transplant surgery clinicians in District of Columbia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $942,396 in total — an average of $78,533 each, of which $78,533 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
- 1Joseph MelanconWashington$236,941
- 2Lynt JohnsonWashington$153,777
- 3Steven PotterWashington$44,627
- 4Jennifer VerbeseyWashington$11,548
- 5Alejandro AquinoWashington$10,911
- 6Alexander KroemerWashington$5,264
- 7Chirag DesaiWashington$2,836
- 8Pablo Serrano RodriguezWashington$1,736
- 9Joseph AfricaWashington$1,150
- 10Michelle BuffWashington$1,091
- 11David WallsWashington$552
- 12Jeffrey LowellWashington$294
- 13Arturo HernandezWashington$124
- 14Jerome CanadyWashington$81
- 15Thomas FishbeinWashington$68
- 16Cal MatsumotoWashington$51