Jennifer M Buszka, WHNP-BC

Medicare patients and services, 2024

From the CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners file for calendar year 2024. It counts Original Medicare patients only, so a practice that mostly sees Medicare Advantage or privately insured patients looks smaller here than it is.

Dollar amounts are not shown. What Medicare pays a practice is gross billings, before staff, premises and tax and including the cost of any drugs it administers, so it is not what a clinician earns.

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group Inc

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 874 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Amber Alkema, DPT Physical Therapist · Santee, CA
• Richard Scott Campbell, MD Occupational Medicine Physician · Chula Vista, CA
• Mr. David Leon Chenoweth Speech-Language Pathologist · Chula Vista, CA
• Dr. Isabelle Claire Chughtai-Harvey, MD Family Medicine Physician · Houston, TX
• Mary Walch Du Quette, MD Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physician · San Diego, CA
• Dr. Kristin Jones, DO Obstetrics & Gynecology Physician · Kenosha, WI
• Jane K Kim, DO Family Medicine Physician · San Diego, CA
• Jeffrey Michael Melancon, MD, PHD Student in an Organized Health Care Education/Training Program · San Diego, CA
• Christina Frances Ramsden, PA Medical Physician Assistant · Antioch, CA
• Ricardo Efren Searcy, MD Internal Medicine Physician · Chula Vista, CA
• Brian Steiner, MD Emergency Medicine Physician · Detroit, MI
• Noelle Leigh Vejtasa, NP Obstetrics & Gynecology Nurse Practitioner · San Diego, CA