Following a rare look into Medicare payments, one South Florida ophthalmologist has emerged as the program’s highest-paid individual doctor.
In 2012, Dr. Salomon Melgen of the Melgen Retina Eye Center received $20.83 million from Medicare. On his website, Melgen, who has been practicing for more than two decades and graduated from a Dominican Republic university, claims to be the only Hispanic ophthalmologist in Palm Beach, St. Lucie and Martin counties.