Transplant Surgery in Tennessee
20 providers, $60,506 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,660.
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 Tennessee
Across 16 transplant surgery clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,088,239 in total — an average of $68,015 each, of which $68,015 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
- 1Sunil GeevargheseNashville$9,786
- 2Martin StrueberGermantown$9,722
- 3Rachel ForbesNashville$7,063
- 4Laura HickmanNashville$5,897
- 5Alan KoffronChattanooga$5,423
- 6Daniel Galvez LimaKnoxville$4,810
- 7Muhammad RaufNashville$4,079
- 8Bernard DubrayNashville$3,281
- 9Burnett KellyNashville$3,017
- 10Wali JohnsonNashville$1,660
- 11Peter HortonMemphis$1,467
- 12Nosratollah NezakatgooMemphis$888
- 13Adam CeriseMemphis$802
- 14Naila DhananiNashville$634
- 15Clarence Foster IiiNashville$631
- 16James EasonMemphis$389
- 17Derek MooreNashville$367
- 18Naftali PresserNashville$293
- 19Martin MontenovoNashville$287
- 20William CrannellNashville$11