Foot Surgery in Minnesota
11 providers, $29,261 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 foot surgery clinicians in Minnesota
Across 9 foot surgery clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $454,842 in total — an average of $50,538 each, of which $50,538 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
- 1Chloe SakowSt Louis Park$17,362
- 2Kari PrescottMinneapolis$4,314
- 3Stefany CarvalhoBrainerd$3,064
- 4Kirsten KangasDuluth$2,953
- 5Paul LangerMinneapolis$600
- 6Corey ValentineMora$376
- 7Dale VancilLino Lakes$212
- 8Melanie JohnsonWhite Bear Lake$175
- 9Ross NelsonSaint Paul$133
- 10Glenn MeintsDuluth$59
- 11Bradley McCuskerAitkin$14