Acute Care in South Dakota
15 providers, $323,963 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 South Dakota
Across 10 acute care clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $353,509 in total — an average of $35,351 each, of which $33,276 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
- 1Christopher NelsonAberdeen$309,014
- 2Paulette NankivelRapid City$4,949
- 3Jessica TvedtRapid City$2,932
- 4Mikayla CrockerRapid City$2,738
- 5Kali HuiskesSioux Falls$1,529
- 6Ashley HeupelSioux Falls$1,135
- 7Wylie BarnesAberdeen$566
- 8Lonny HeinemannSioux Falls$187
- 9Katelyn BauerSioux Falls$164
- 10Jamie van LentSioux Falls$160
- 11Wade SendelbachSioux Falls$156
- 12Alexandre BittonSioux Falls$143
- 13Sara KooleSioux Falls$127
- 14Sandra ShumakerDakota Dunes$107
- 15Dana OlingerSioux Falls$56