Addiction Medicine in Minnesota
21 providers, $13,712 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $94.
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 addiction medicine clinicians in Minnesota
Across 12 addiction medicine clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $355,601 in total — an average of $29,633 each, of which $29,633 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
- 1Alana SasakiSaint Paul$4,133
- 2Svetlana ZaydmanBurnsville$3,635
- 3Jay SatherSt Louis Park$2,875
- 4Lisa VollmerSaint Paul$1,620
- 5Umar SiddiquiDuluth$235
- 6Lenore EversonBurnsville$233
- 7Bruce MerkinCenter City$227
- 8Karolina MlynekRochester$188
- 9Joseph CarleyRochester$152
- 10Anne PylkasEagan$111
- 11Bishoy SamuelCenter City$94
- 12Nykolai PidhorodeckyjCenter City$61
- 13Roger LarocheSaint Paul$42
- 14Ryan CoburnRochester$40
- 15Jeffery MorganSt. Louis Park$39
- 16Rowena ArchibaldSt Louis Park$27
- 17Christopher DarnellSaint Paul$0
- 18Melanie RipleyDuluth$0
- 19Joan LaesCoon Rapids$0
- 20Brian GrahanMinneapolis$0
- 21Charles ReznikoffMinneapolis$0