Cardiovascular Disease in Minnesota
451 providers, $15,019,334 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $778.
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 cardiovascular disease clinicians in Minnesota
Across 376 cardiovascular disease clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $29,222,428 in total — an average of $77,719 each, of which $76,243 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
- 1Jeffrey ChambersMinneapolis$3,224,243
- 2Srijoy MahapatraRochester$1,188,673
- 3Markus MeyerMinneapolis$786,217
- 4Robert SchwartzMinneapolis$501,793
- 5Robert VantasselMinneapolis$492,642
- 6Charanjit RihalRochester$477,938
- 7Amir LermanRochester$465,103
- 8Nedaa SkeikMinneapolis$453,159
- 9Joao CavalcanteMinneapolis$384,378
- 10Inderjit AnandMinneapolis$384,346
- 11Martha GroganRochester$329,875
- 12Jay SimonsonSt Louis Park$309,013
- 13Virend SomersRochester$261,528
- 14Thomas BiggsSaint Paul$244,180
- 15David HurrellMinneapolis$204,949
- 16Christopher FoleyEdina$191,685
- 17Francisco Lopez-JimenezRochester$167,077
- 18Matthew WhitbeckCoon Rapids$162,520
- 19Yader Sandoval PichardoMinneapolis$157,376
- 20Charles HerzogMinneapolis$157,144
- 21Pierce VatterottSaint Paul$146,032
- 22Ammar KilluRochester$138,673
- 23Spencer KuboSaint Paul$133,805
- 24Christopher LatanichDuluth$128,035
- 25Tamas AlexyMinneapolis$117,269
- 26Allan JaffeRochester$110,605
- 27Robert McBaneRochester$109,863
- 28Nadira HamidMinneapolis$107,713
- 29Michael McGoonRochester$106,300
- 30Johannes BrechtkenSaint Paul$99,544
- 31R Scott WrightRochester$94,535
- 32David HolmesRochester$93,413
- 33Marc PritzkerMinneapolis$92,654
- 34Peter EckmanMinneapolis$80,835
- 35Mohamad Adnan AlkhouliRochester$77,731
- 36Tung NguyenCoon Rapids$76,555
- 37Jason GarlieCoon Rapids$74,808
- 38Stephen RemoleMinneapolis$68,026
- 39Eric ErnstEdina$63,224
- 40Steven GoldsmithMinneapolis$62,784
- 41Mario GoesslMinneapolis$62,068
- 42Kairav VakilMinneapolis$61,958
- 43Pradnya Brijmohan BhattadMinneapolis$60,878
- 44Scott HoffmanRochester$59,235
- 45Joseph LinMinneapolis$57,348
- 46Daniel PinkhasMinneapolis$56,460
- 47Amr IdrisMinneapolis$52,846
- 48Nishtha SodhiSaint Paul$49,905
- 49Abhishek DeshmukhRochester$49,053
- 50Graham LohrmannDuluth$46,518
- 51Narayan Gurukrip KowlgiRochester$44,999
- 52Timinder BiringEdina$43,472
- 53Yashasvi ChughMinneapolis$42,797
- 54Bernard GershRochester$40,596
- 55Michelle NsahlaiMinneapolis$40,161
- 56Konstantinos SiontisRochester$39,995
- 57Chad OlingerCoon Rapids$38,740
- 58Joseph DeckerMinneapolis$38,015
- 59Sharon MulvaghRochester$36,896
- 60Rebecca CogswellMinneapolis$36,767