Adult Health in Iowa
77 providers, $55,430 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $180.
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 adult health clinicians in Iowa
Across 44 adult health clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,900,667 in total — an average of $43,197 each, of which $35,350 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
- 1Lisa MeyerSioux City$7,706
- 2Katie ShannonMason City$7,652
- 3Barbara PetersonCedar Rapids$6,842
- 4Eileen YeisleyIowa City$3,456
- 5Suzanne HenningsIowa City$3,184
- 6Jennifer BeckerIowa City$2,541
- 7Amanda DavisOttumwa$2,466
- 8Breanna TalbertCedar Rapids$1,999
- 9Julie ShawWest Des Moines$1,880
- 10Tracey JurgensmeierClive$1,391
- 11Cindy GrowWaterloo$1,149
- 12Jenay LindseyDavenport$1,089
- 13Dori SevdeDubuque$1,021
- 14Laura EslingerAnkeny$760
- 15Edward MelcherIowa City$728
- 16Sandra HallDes Moines$671
- 17Kelli BureshMarshalltown$655
- 18Carissa ThompsonDes Moines$620
- 19Catherine SmithDes Moines$614
- 20Erica BrownCedar Rapids$599
- 21Sue Forkah-MusoroDes Moines$499
- 22Christina KronerClive$457
- 23Jessica EllensohnDes Moines$444
- 24Jill DuffyDes Moines$384
- 25Jennifer GreimannDes Moines$368
- 26Allyson LandphairWaterloo$353
- 27Tommora ShawCouncil Bluffs$352
- 28Kristi BogsethDes Moines$309
- 29Chelsey ZitelmanDubuque$307
- 30Bethany KirtonCedar Rapids$284
- 31Gretchen HongDubuque$283
- 32Peggy DeboerSioux City$260
- 33Stephanie ErdmannUrbandale$249
- 34Aubrie StuckeyCedar Rapids$237
- 35Kimberly KarnstedtDavenport$220
- 36Lisa SomersWest Des Moines$211
- 37Heidi SmithMason City$206
- 38Melissa BattDes Moines$197
- 39Katharine TurpinDes Moines$180
- 40Stephanie GrayHiawatha$170
- 41Leslie PostonDavenport$159
- 42Heather LevinsonDecorah$151
- 43Deborah HuberClive$147
- 44Catherine LeonardMarshalltown$139
- 45Margery AmelonIowa City$136
- 46Jessica SchottAltoona$122
- 47Daniel HolthausIowa City$121
- 48Melanie BlaisCedar Rapids$106
- 49Ann AschoffIowa City$105
- 50Mary PedersenNichols$101
- 51Megan GriffinOttumwa$86
- 52Lynn WelzenbachWest Des Moines$83
- 53Jennifer BrockwayCoralville$79
- 54Mindy MartinCedar Rapids$69
- 55Michelle GillitzerCoralville$60
- 56Jessica HaubFort Dodge$59
- 57Kelsee BrowningOttumwa$57
- 58Julie YountDes Moines$53
- 59Sue McKernanDes Moines$53
- 60Katherine ReuterMount Pleasant$52