Adult Health in North Dakota
17 providers, $33,230 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 adult health clinicians in North Dakota
Across 12 adult health clinicians in North Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $425,370 in total — an average of $35,448 each, of which $34,684 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
- 1Sarah AbbottFargo$13,203
- 2Alison LynchGrand Forks$10,038
- 3April QualleyFargo$4,457
- 4Joan QuamFargo$1,629
- 5Kayla BachandFargo$1,304
- 6Sharon WrightMinot$1,283
- 7Carla AberleJamestown$508
- 8Megaan CianciFargo$211
- 9Molly OlsonFargo$135
- 10Claudia LowWatford City$80
- 11Lisa BernhardtGrand Forks$79
- 12Joseph HalvorsonFargo$72
- 13Amy FalckWahpeton$71
- 14Christine HarsellGrand Forks$57
- 15Amanda RobertsFargo$54
- 16Jennifer HenryFargo$29
- 17Brooke BadjieFargo$19