Emergency Medical Services in Iowa
10 providers, $2,223 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 emergency medical services clinicians in Iowa
Across 3 emergency medical services clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $82,370 in total — an average of $27,457 each, of which $27,457 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
- 1Dana KingIowa City$1,789
- 2Michael RosenblattBurlington$89
- 3Daniel WrightNewton$61
- 4Kymberly LifeOskaloosa$56
- 5Kevin PothovenDes Moines$52
- 6Andrew FrostOskaloosa$46
- 7Milton VangundyMarshalltown$41
- 8Matthew WhitisOskaloosa$30
- 9Deborah Nielsen DejongOskaloosa$30
- 10Michael CronkletonDavenport$29