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Industry payments to physicians · Alaska · 2024

Alaska

In Alaska, drug and device makers reported $2M in general payments to 1,713 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $916 each — plus $3M tied to research and $952,045 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$2M
general payments
1,713
covered recipients paid
$916
mean per physician

Top specialties in Alaska

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Rheumatology $207,185
Orthopaedic Surgery $129,980
Family $117,759
Emergency Medicine $91,199
Physician Assistant $89,416
Allergy & Immunology $70,594
Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck $59,574
Allergy $58,873
Surgery $57,055
Medical $49,787
Vascular Surgery $43,200
Pediatric Pulmonology $41,059

Highest-paid physicians in Alaska

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

John Botson Rheumatology · Anchorage · top payer: Amgen Inc. $204,447
Michael Levy Emergency Medicine · Anchorage · top payer: Stryker Corporation $90,559
Bryan Haughom Orthopaedic Surgery · Anchorage · top payer: Medical Device Business Services, Inc. $73,373
Jeffrey Demain Allergy & Immunology · Anchorage · top payer: Blueprint Medicines Corporation $68,852
Trisha Kernodle Family · Anchorage · top payer: Convatec Inc. $60,200
James Kallman Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck · Anchorage · top payer: Medtronic, Inc. $59,574
Bryan Farthing Allergy · Anchorage · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $43,932
Jered Weinstock Pediatric Pulmonology · Anchorage · top payer: Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. $40,980
Milan Bajmoczi Vascular Surgery · Fairbanks · top payer: AngioDynamics, Inc. $35,182
Jeremy Rosiecki Physician Assistant · Anchorage · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $23,562
Alex Orten Psychiatry · Anchorage · top payer: Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. $22,248
Melissa Hardesty Gynecologic Oncology · Anchorage · top payer: AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $22,055
Kristen Jessen Neurology · Soldotna · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $18,487
Harrison Burman Surgery · Ketchikan · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $15,953
Christopher Dietrich Medical · Palmer · top payer: Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. $15,645
Christina Froiland Physician Assistant · Anchorage · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $13,318
Suneet Purohit Cardiovascular Disease · Anchorage · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $11,582
Melissa Tondre Obstetrics & Gynecology · Anchorage · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $9,345
Andrew Wappett General Practice · Fairbanks · top payer: A-dec, Inc. $9,340
Carolyn Majors Surgery · Anchorage · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $9,045
Charles Haggerty Orthopaedic Surgery · Wasilla · top payer: Stryker Corporation $8,893
Steven Humphreys Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Soldotna · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $8,868
Patricia Capo Obstetrics & Gynecology · Anchorage · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $8,799
Andrzej Maciejewski Nephrology · Anchorage · top payer: Amgen Inc. $8,674
Samuel Waller Neurological Surgery · Anchorage · top payer: Globus Medical, Inc. $8,344

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Alaska — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.