Vascular Surgery in Alabama
61 providers, $5,693,152 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $5,256.
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 surgery clinicians in Alabama
Across 49 vascular surgery clinicians in Alabama who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,397,685 in total — an average of $273,422 each, of which $232,717 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
- 1Albert PacificoBirmingham$5,076,400
- 2Andrew KnottHuntsville$75,845
- 3Brian SellersMontgomery$71,166
- 4Peter PonsFlorence$53,888
- 5Benjamin PearceBirmingham$37,013
- 6William HolmanBirmingham$25,477
- 7Keenan WanamakerMontgomery$22,633
- 8Marco CioppiHuntsville$20,580
- 9Mina JacobMobile$19,433
- 10Stephen HeinzmanBirmingham$17,703
- 11Benjamin MakamsonMobile$17,606
- 12Abdelsalam OsmanDothan$16,147
- 13Mell WelbornHuntsville$14,311
- 14Benjamin ShepherdHuntsville$13,049
- 15Irwin White-GittensMontgomery$13,005
- 16Lee FergusonMobile$12,990
- 17Ralph ReddMontgomery$12,750
- 18Jarrad RowseBirmingham$10,343
- 19Justin PardenMontgomery$10,040
- 20Graeme McFarlandBirmingham$9,631
- 21Vernon HorstBirmingham$9,439
- 22Ronny JohnsonHuntsville$9,058
- 23William VealeMontgomery$8,091
- 24Alan WillisBoaz$7,744
- 25Cullen McCarthyMobile$7,690
- 26Glenn EssesMobile$6,760
- 27Sean EnglishAlbertville$6,613
- 28Michael DoMobile$6,608
- 29James KirklinBirmingham$5,750
- 30Lewis LyonsMobile$5,640
- 31Ahmed RazaMontgomery$5,256
- 32Ralph PfeifferDothan$5,180
- 33Danielle SutzkoBirmingham$4,846
- 34Mark PattersonBirmingham$4,804
- 35Robert EnglesMontgomery$4,369
- 36Brian FletcherFlorence$3,859
- 37Michael GleasonBirmingham$3,484
- 38William HardyMobile$3,409
- 39Brenton QuinneyBirmingham$2,995
- 40William SimpsonTuscaloosa$2,879
- 41Melanie RoseMobile$2,765
- 42Steven TaylorAlabaster$2,722
- 43David McGiffinBirmingham$2,500
- 44Robert McCordBirmingham$2,450
- 45Michael DrummondBirmingham$2,401
- 46Marc PassmanBirmingham$2,307
- 47Jeffrey ThompsonFort Payne$2,043
- 48William HarveyBirmingham$1,873
- 49Constantine AthanasuleasBirmingham$1,719
- 50Ralph PfeifferMobile$1,574
- 51William WhitleyBirmingham$1,546
- 52Juliet Blakeslee-CarterBirmingham$1,485
- 53Robert DabalBirmingham$1,404
- 54William GarretsonFoley$427
- 55Richard Tan Li ZheMontgomery$364
- 56Jeffrey ManordRussellville$327
- 57Emily SpanglerBirmingham$278
- 58Tracy LoweryHuntsville$209
- 59Rick RobertsHuntsville$131
- 60James IsobeVestavia Hills$111