Critical Care Medicine in Minnesota
83 providers, $354,549 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $125.
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 critical care medicine clinicians in Minnesota
Across 58 critical care medicine clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,118,996 in total — an average of $36,534 each, of which $36,534 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
- 1Samy El-HalawaniSaint Paul$247,877
- 2John MariniSt Paul$27,573
- 3Steven SkolasinskiMinneapolis$20,292
- 4Felix ZamoraSaint Paul$11,833
- 5Jonathan ShelverSaint Paul$10,942
- 6Ploypin LertjitbanjongMankato$5,262
- 7Firas ElmufdiMinneapolis$3,898
- 8Eric SwansonDuluth$3,567
- 9William BrowneMinneapolis$2,600
- 10Joshua HuelsterMinneapolis$2,177
- 11Christine WassermanDuluth$1,693
- 12Benjamin HickoxRochester$1,256
- 13Kevin BudaRochester$1,153
- 14Tarik HananeRochester$1,110
- 15William RogersMinneapolis$1,069
- 16Bradley ChmielewskiPlymouth$1,036
- 17Viral DesaiRochester$1,007
- 18Omer SultanMinneapolis$982
- 19Tempest VarnerSaint Paul$902
- 20Benjamin HenkleMinneapolis$797
- 21Yasir HamadMinneapolis$646
- 22Melody KoMinneapolis$580
- 23Danielle UrnessDuluth$562
- 24Sandeep JainSaint Cloud$415
- 25Luis Diaz CaballeroRochester$407
- 26Gregory StrohDuluth$370
- 27Alec AielloRochester$297
- 28Luis Ng SuengRochester$213
- 29Jennifer WeinbergMinneapolis$202
- 30Anupam VermaMinneapolis$193
- 31Abdelrahman AhmedRochester$170
- 32Matthew NygrenMinneapolis$165
- 33Sachin PatelRobbinsdale$165
- 34Sagar NavareMinneapolis$164
- 35Farheen SurtieCoon Rapids$159
- 36David FellerRochester$148
- 37Kavitha GopalratnamRochester$147
- 38Sarah KeslerMinneapolis$140
- 39Denis SnegovskikhRochester$135
- 40Amy BrennoMinneapolis$135
- 41Padma ChandikaMinneapolis$130
- 42Alysa DavisMinneapolis$125
- 43Chen ChauMinneapolis$112
- 44Maria Lorraine BugayongRochester$108
- 45Sydney HansenMinneapolis$100
- 46Brienne SauvageauMinneapolis$92
- 47Steve OnyambuMinneapolis$79
- 48Vi NguyentranRochester$73
- 49Iaroslav KondriukSaint Cloud$72
- 50Christina Bastin de JongDuluth$70
- 51Tonia Mowbray-DonahueCoon Rapids$70
- 52Joseph LasnierSaint Paul$70
- 53James BevenourRochester$67
- 54Syed KhanMankato$60
- 55Elizabeth DayDuluth$60
- 56Patrick KingRochester$60
- 57Daniel SchlossMinneapolis$58
- 58Theodore McMenomySaint Paul$58
- 59Julia WeinkaufMinneapolis$58
- 60Jennifer LeeRochester$55