Cardiovascular Disease in Montana
49 providers, $227,851 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,321.
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 Montana
Across 42 cardiovascular disease clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,627,533 in total — an average of $157,798 each, of which $157,018 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
- 1Benjamin PlankBillings$46,109
- 2Alrich GrayGreat Falls$33,841
- 3Robert MitchellKalispell$22,762
- 4Jocelyn SpoonMissoula$16,649
- 5Patricia KellyMissoula$12,405
- 6Joseph ApostolBillings$11,600
- 7Newton CoutinhoMissoula$9,824
- 8Dane SobekBozeman$8,197
- 9Michael ReedMissoula$8,151
- 10Gregory WoodMissoula$6,316
- 11Jorge CastrizGreat Falls$6,240
- 12Michael RitchieGreat Falls$4,998
- 13Morgan KelloggMissoula$4,473
- 14Ashley MaysMissoula$4,352
- 15Douglas WaldoBillings$2,792
- 16Matthew WeissMissoula$2,686
- 17Puneet BansalMissoula$2,500
- 18Jeffrey SmithBillings$2,326
- 19Rawa SarjiKalispell$2,273
- 20Christopher AnzaloneBillings$1,967
- 21Alexander JehleMissoula$1,833
- 22Miroslaw SochanskiGreat Falls$1,500
- 23Vincenzo PolsinelliBozeman$1,430
- 24Arthur RabinowitzBillings$1,322
- 25Emily HansonBillings$1,321
- 26Ronald ChinBozeman$1,212
- 27Eve GillespieKalispell$1,205
- 28Alexis HarrisonKalispell$1,196
- 29Joseph KrezowskiKalispell$1,147
- 30Jon McGregorMissoula$1,134
- 31Joseph CondonBillings$950
- 32Anthony NavoneHamilton$516
- 33Barbara DudczakBillings$300
- 34Sharon HeckerKalispell$290
- 35Sara KlingerBozeman$284
- 36Clara KwanBillings$276
- 37Robert PhillipsHelena$241
- 38Bradley BerryMissoula$199
- 39Sean BellBozeman$181
- 40George BandowMissoula$168
- 41John McHenryHelena$153
- 42Chris LinBillings$125
- 43Carla KingsleyHelena$108
- 44Preston SchneiderBozeman$96
- 45Blair ErbBozeman$81
- 46Alexander TaylorBozeman$67
- 47George ReedMissoula$24
- 48David RothKalispell$18
- 49John RibicHelena$12