Family in Montana
481 providers, $493,719 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $142.
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 clinicians in Montana
Across 279 family clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,782,874 in total — an average of $35,064 each, of which $32,655 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
- 1Amanda MurrayGreat Falls$100,932
- 2Kara AddisonHelena$49,819
- 3Lacy TangedahlBillings$31,276
- 4Mara ZelloBozeman$30,712
- 5Michelle Weaver KnowlesMissoula$13,826
- 6Jessica HavensHelena$11,215
- 7Tara WellsHelena$9,611
- 8Sherri NassarBozeman$7,521
- 9Sadra ThomasGreat Falls$7,480
- 10Betsy AkinGreat Falls$6,028
- 11Mary MiddaghHelena$5,828
- 12Stewart ChumbleyBozeman$5,325
- 13Amy AndersonBozeman$4,943
- 14Sydne SkaerGreat Falls$4,915
- 15Shena OneillMissoula$4,023
- 16Sarah PackGreat Falls$3,925
- 17Megan GittingsHelena$3,811
- 18Jennalie GuthmillerGreat Falls$3,780
- 19Cherish van SchaikChoteau$3,717
- 20Dawn PetersKalispell$3,549
- 21Chelsey MillerMissoula$3,453
- 22Jeannie FahlquistHelena$3,371
- 23Christopher VanhorssenHelena$3,296
- 24Nicole SwartzMissoula$3,139
- 25Tiffany FordMissoula$3,126
- 26Riesa OverstreetButte$3,093
- 27Wendy DonaughBillings$3,006
- 28Matt McNuttMissoula$2,943
- 29Katelyn BriggsAnaconda$2,887
- 30Casey BarkerGreat Falls$2,802
- 31Payton O'TooleBillings$2,774
- 32Willow SheehanHelena$2,709
- 33Laura SmithBillings$2,575
- 34Mackenzie WestphalMissoula$2,559
- 35Courtney FordeGreat Falls$2,559
- 36Leigha ShilhanekHelena$2,530
- 37Christina RicheyBillings$2,518
- 38Katherine MistrettaBozeman$2,517
- 39Kelly TimmerGreat Falls$2,477
- 40April ReynoldsGreat Falls$2,414
- 41Kari DebooMissoula$2,379
- 42Lindsay McCarthyHelena$2,275
- 43Deanna BabbGreat Falls$2,205
- 44Jacqueline FriedeGreat Falls$2,186
- 45Julie FleschHelena$2,181
- 46Sarah SlaterMissoula$1,998
- 47Ladonna MaxwellGreat Falls$1,879
- 48Anita BekkerHavre$1,790
- 49Shane JensonHelena$1,753
- 50Gretchen FowellGreat Falls$1,748
- 51Megan MorganMissoula$1,705
- 52Pauline ConwayGreat Falls$1,667
- 53Susan McGeeMissoula$1,655
- 54Kami WinnickiBillings$1,580
- 55Taylor RicheyBillings$1,550
- 56Steven WheelerMissoula$1,495
- 57Chris HartsfieldSheridan$1,373
- 58Jacqueline DevineGreat Falls$1,370
- 59Ashley KamrathMissoula$1,357
- 60Meghan McGrathGreat Falls$1,300