Transplant Surgery in Iowa
11 providers, $99,268 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 Iowa
Across 8 transplant surgery clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $413,438 in total — an average of $51,680 each, of which $51,680 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
- 1David AxelrodIowa City$64,696
- 2Qasim ChaudhryDes Moines$12,475
- 3Hassan AzizIowa City$9,603
- 4Juan ArenasDes Moines$5,406
- 5Ramy El-DiwanyIowa City$4,161
- 6Mohammad AlzghariDes Moines$2,729
- 7Alan HemmingIowa City$63
- 8Alan ReedIowa City$63
- 9Daniel KatzIowa City$25
- 10Muhammad AbbasCoralville$25
- 11Shengliang HeIowa City$21