Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology in Montana
15 providers, $422,840 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 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in Montana
Across 13 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,132,561 in total — an average of $240,966 each, of which $240,966 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
- 1Melissa RobinsonMissoula$247,938
- 2Joseph MuhlesteinBillings$42,610
- 3Nicholas MantiniMissoula$38,631
- 4Annie DongMissoula$28,917
- 5Robert MurdockKalispell$11,949
- 6Mark KovachGreat Falls$10,475
- 7Loren BudgeBillings$10,345
- 8William DresenBillings$8,422
- 9Anastasios SaliarisBillings$7,683
- 10Simone MuscoMissoula$6,955
- 11Jonathan BrunsonKalispell$4,752
- 12Luis AlvarezBillings$3,361
- 13Michael YerkeyMissoula$315
- 14Alan ThometzBillings$282
- 15Edmund BrennanGreat Falls$205