Emergency Medicine in Iowa
360 providers, $660,549 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $13.
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 medicine clinicians in Iowa
Across 303 emergency medicine clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,239,903 in total — an average of $43,696 each, of which $43,596 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
- 1Anthony CarterCedar Rapids$407,613
- 2Thomas WernimontAmes$134,335
- 3David TalanIowa City$47,534
- 4Hijinio CarreonDes Moines$25,047
- 5Todd SextonDes Moines$5,379
- 6Philip SpanheimerIowa City$4,713
- 7Scott MurraySioux City$4,650
- 8Mohammad KotobIowa City$3,099
- 9Ryan BakkeNewton$2,820
- 10Daniel RundeIowa City$2,370
- 11Patricia EndressMason City$2,310
- 12William ParkerMason City$1,559
- 13Kelly WrenDavenport$1,098
- 14Thomas CheatleCouncil Bluffs$934
- 15Eberechi EkechukwuSibley$916
- 16Peter DaherOnawa$902
- 17Joanne MillerDavenport$880
- 18Patrick CostelloCouncil Bluffs$873
- 19Sarah MillerIowa City$729
- 20Theodore GiffordDubuque$498
- 21Jo NeubauerSioux City$386
- 22Evangelia AssimacopoulosIowa City$303
- 23Thomas StriegelIowa City$269
- 24Loren ReedWest Burlington$257
- 25David DierksDavenport$254
- 26Craig HustonWest Burlington$248
- 27Molly ThompsonNevada$240
- 28Katie Stadheim-LynchIowa City$233
- 29Alyssa GingrichIowa City$233
- 30Alee Hueffmeier-KunshierIowa City$233
- 31Nicholas PashinaIowa City$233
- 32Gannen RinckIowa City$233
- 33Conner McDonaldIowa City$221
- 34Joseph PetersonDes Moines$215
- 35Ajay SharmaDes Moines$208
- 36Joseph KwofieWaterloo$198
- 37Brandon BeauchampWaterloo$189
- 38Carlos FalconWest Burlington$186
- 39Leo BanwartWest Burlington$185
- 40Nicholas StullWaterloo$174
- 41Ryan ThoresonPella$172
- 42Jeffrey WrightDavenport$166
- 43Michelle YatesDavenport$154
- 44Marc ToofanIowa City$150
- 45Devin TollCedar Rapids$149
- 46Eric HovdaCedar Rapids$146
- 47Yasir ElhawiCedar Rapids$141
- 48Amna JafryDes Moines$132
- 49Kimberley MagalskiDes Moines$132
- 50Leslie SchierDes Moines$132
- 51Mark GraberIowa City$129
- 52Alyssa DrezdonDes Moines$124
- 53Benjamin FriedmanCedar Rapids$123
- 54Thomas BenzoniSioux City$122
- 55Hela KotobIowa City$118
- 56Amanda IrishIowa City$118
- 57Joshua EastvoldCedar Rapids$117
- 58Odinaka NwankwoIowa$116
- 59David SmithWest Burlington$111
- 60Berri SwasandIowa Falls$109