Vascular Neurology in Tennessee
17 providers, $131,691 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 vascular neurology clinicians in Tennessee
Across 15 vascular neurology clinicians in Tennessee who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $623,680 in total — an average of $41,579 each, of which $32,892 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
- 1Violiza AcostaMemphis$104,821
- 2Deborah KerriganNashville$6,913
- 3Himanshu PatelNashville$5,559
- 4David ParrellaNashville$5,496
- 5David CurfmanNashville$3,418
- 6Charles CapeGermantown$1,909
- 7Kaushik ParshaMemphis$786
- 8Cory RiceChattanooga$732
- 9Phaniraj IyengarNashville$618
- 10Beth Anne CavanaughMemphis$433
- 11Nirav ShahMemphis$356
- 12Savdeep SinghMemphis$202
- 13Zunir ChaudhryNashville$164
- 14Matthew SchragNashville$116
- 15Kathleen WardKnoxville$91
- 16Rocco CannistraroKnoxville$54
- 17Carolyn CroninNashville$23