Acute Care in Montana
16 providers, $7,320 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 acute care clinicians in Montana
Across 12 acute care clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $242,271 in total — an average of $20,189 each, of which $20,189 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
- 1Joy RodriguezBillings$2,890
- 2Rebecca KochnerBillings$1,631
- 3Maria KellyMissoula$966
- 4Matthew ShryockMissoula$457
- 5Sarah-Anne GallowayGreat Falls$303
- 6Ashley CampbellGreat Falls$242
- 7Pamela SmithKalispell$173
- 8Peter MolnarGreat Falls$155
- 9Kim PowellMissoula$126
- 10Kendall BabbKalispell$118
- 11Melissa CotnerKalispell$100
- 12Paul KrogueGreat Falls$85
- 13Barbara McGeeMissoula$24
- 14Emily MillerBillings$20
- 15Maren ErpeldingKalispell$17
- 16Rachel McMorrisBillings$13