Transplant Surgery in Kentucky
13 providers, $143,957 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 Kentucky
Across 13 transplant surgery clinicians in Kentucky who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $696,146 in total — an average of $53,550 each, of which $53,550 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
- 1Eric DavisLouisville$77,663
- 2Christopher JonesLouisville$33,691
- 3Mary EngLouisville$5,815
- 4Alejandro Cracco MahechaLexington$5,341
- 5Malay ShahLexington$4,825
- 6Michael HughesLouisville$4,722
- 7Meera GuptaLexington$2,786
- 8Siddharth DesaiLexington$2,780
- 9Alexandre AnchetaLexington$2,529
- 10Matthew BlackLexington$2,285
- 11Yaser Al-SalmayLouisville$850
- 12Erin MaynardLexington$536
- 13Roberto GedalyLexington$135