Family Medicine in Montana
426 providers, $397,866 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $103.
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 family medicine clinicians in Montana
Across 268 family medicine clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $14,599,282 in total — an average of $54,475 each, of which $51,044 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
- 1Kimberly BlakesleeMissoula$186,040
- 2Kathleen Harder-BrouwerHamilton$27,991
- 3Joey BanksMissoula$20,714
- 4Julie ReilBillings$8,698
- 5Jeanne Pereles OrtizBillings$7,024
- 6Aubrey RemmersMissoula$5,138
- 7Lyle OnstadGreat Falls$5,032
- 8Carey WelshGreat Falls$4,592
- 9Christina HoBillings$3,893
- 10Libby LakeGreat Falls$3,636
- 11Ryan BoerGreat Falls$3,458
- 12Harvard HeathHamilton$3,380
- 13Timothy NuceKalispell$3,352
- 14Kelli LarsonPolson$3,244
- 15Megan BrinkaGreat Falls$2,771
- 16Craig TreptowGreat Falls$2,658
- 17Eric RavitzMissoula$2,497
- 18Joseph LeeGreat Falls$2,418
- 19Brenda KirklandHamilton$2,385
- 20Kevin McCreaGreat Falls$2,172
- 21Cary BybeeShelby$2,026
- 22Terry EdwardsBozeman$1,976
- 23Benjamin PhippsBillings$1,861
- 24Lori DrummDeer Lodge$1,774
- 25Daniel RauschPolson$1,676
- 26Logen NunbergBozeman$1,653
- 27Gary OstahowskiHardin$1,598
- 28Gabor BendaBozeman$1,581
- 29Joshua SpakeThompson Falls$1,366
- 30Heather WheelerBozeman$1,346
- 31Steven RobertsBozeman$1,334
- 32Tyler ThorsonPolson$1,312
- 33Christine MitchellBozeman$1,298
- 34Michael AscuittoBillings$1,288
- 35Laura HogansonRonan$1,188
- 36Robert JohnsonHelena$1,187
- 37Lar AutioMissoula$1,172
- 38Isaac BillingsPolson$1,162
- 39William ZachowAnaconda$1,143
- 40Christopher SmithMissoula$1,141
- 41Geoffrey HolmanMissoula$1,080
- 42Summera QamarDeer Lodge$1,056
- 43Jodi Weisser ViolettGreat Falls$1,053
- 44Megan VigilRonan$1,045
- 45Carol BridgesMissoula$953
- 46John TremperKalispell$951
- 47Venkatesh JairamGreat Falls$949
- 48Connie HahnBozeman$908
- 49Edred VizcarraRonan$894
- 50Courtney HathawayMissoula$892
- 51Jace BirdFort Benton$816
- 52Kendra LeeMissoula$792
- 53David EngbrechtGreat Falls$786
- 54Sarah BorgeMissoula$777
- 55Thomas HildnerBozeman$748
- 56Tracy FairbanksBozeman$739
- 57Daniel MoulletRonan$728
- 58Anna EarlGreat Falls$710
- 59Lisa CadwellGreat Falls$708
- 60Craig LevyPoplar$707