Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine in Florida
32 providers, $1,297,786 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,087.
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 undersea and hyperbaric medicine clinicians in Florida
Across 20 undersea and hyperbaric medicine clinicians in Florida who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,939,200 in total — an average of $146,960 each, of which $146,960 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
- 1Stephen PappachenLakeland$1,254,904
- 2Juan BravoLakeland$6,025
- 3Magaly RodriguezTampa$5,974
- 4Lawrence BachlePunta Gorda$3,882
- 5Edgar RhodesJacksonville$3,461
- 6Walter ConlanOrlando$2,588
- 7Paolina PantchevaKissimmee$2,393
- 8Paul JohnsonDaytona Beach$2,140
- 9Blane ShatkinPembroke Pines$2,074
- 10Reynald AllamClearwater$1,996
- 11Matthew EllisGainesville$1,634
- 12Richard Fontanez-AldeaLady Lake$1,490
- 13Keron FergusonMaitland$1,352
- 14Amesh PatelLutz$1,254
- 15Keyur PatelNorth Port$1,126
- 16Sayyed HussainTampa$1,087
- 17Linda MillerArcadia$619
- 18Wayne TaylorHudson$586
- 19Safa MakladHollywood$574
- 20Jorge SzauerDelray Beach$547
- 21Gregory AlfredMiami$352
- 22Montana ColePalm Harbor$351
- 23Paul BuzaMelbourne$255
- 24Charleen IseTierra Verde$250
- 25Charles BoothbyPalm Harbor$200
- 26Luis CarrilloBartow$181
- 27Micah DavisArcadia$167
- 28Kristin EversoleJacksonville$114
- 29John ZelisJacksonville$87
- 30Lauren RomeoMelbourne$70
- 31Cornelius FranckleSouth Pasadena$34
- 32Donald VierlingTarpon Springs$17