Epilepsy in Minnesota
18 providers, $223,812 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 epilepsy clinicians in Minnesota
Across 13 epilepsy clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $389,766 in total — an average of $29,982 each, of which $29,982 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
- 1Elaine WirrellRochester$159,698
- 2Katherine NickelsRochester$22,854
- 3Sandipan Pati Bankim Behari PatiMinneapolis$11,021
- 4Gregory WorrellRochester$10,778
- 5Brian LundstromRochester$8,718
- 6Stephen ThompsonMinneapolis$4,986
- 7Kelsey SmithRochester$2,588
- 8Christopher SanfilippoRochester$1,046
- 9David BurkholderRochester$714
- 10Nicholas GreggRochester$312
- 11Anthony FineRochester$231
- 12Gregory CascinoRochester$203
- 13Hicham DabajaRochester$195
- 14Elson SoRochester$182
- 15Lily Wong-KisielRochester$103
- 16Weston WrightRochester$94
- 17Carolina Gil TommeeRochester$47
- 18Christopher PhillipsRochester$42