Transplant Surgery in Georgia
29 providers, $506,449 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $2,295.
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 Georgia
Across 19 transplant surgery clinicians in Georgia who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,179,771 in total — an average of $62,093 each, of which $62,093 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
- 1Nicole TurgeonAtlanta$129,915
- 2Stuart KnechtleAtlanta$88,346
- 3Allan KirkAtlanta$79,726
- 4Andrew AdamsAtlanta$59,695
- 5Evan WeitmanAtlanta$40,286
- 6Clark KensingerAtlanta$34,991
- 7Rahul MaheshwariMacon$18,644
- 8Juliano RiellaAtlanta$14,640
- 9Harrison PollingerAtlanta$8,804
- 10Ahmad MirzaAugusta$4,687
- 11Marty SellersAtlanta$4,366
- 12Jonathan HundleyAtlanta$3,704
- 13Steven KimAtlanta$3,309
- 14Giridhar VedulaAtlanta$2,565
- 15Emmanuel MinjaAtlanta$2,295
- 16Raymond LynchAtlanta$1,682
- 17Sharon HollowayAtlanta$1,435
- 18Angello LinAugusta$1,397
- 19Sulemon ChaudhryAtlanta$1,366
- 20Adam GraconAtlanta$1,234
- 21Jared WhiteAtlanta$1,172
- 22Khea TanAtlanta$923
- 23Samantha AitchisonAtlanta$534
- 24Melissa GibbsAtlanta$329
- 25Paul TsoAtlanta$173
- 26John ColeAlpharetta$115
- 27John KillianAtlanta$71
- 28Miguel TanAtlanta$29
- 29William KitchensAtlanta$17