Gerontology in North Dakota
10 providers, $8,258 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 gerontology clinicians in North Dakota
Across 7 gerontology clinicians in North Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $271,304 in total — an average of $38,758 each, of which $38,758 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
- 1Jessica SwingenGrand Forks$4,560
- 2Comfort WendiGrand Forks$1,177
- 3Amanda ArnesonGrand Forks$970
- 4Danette PengillyBismarck$546
- 5Sarah MillerBismarck$425
- 6Lee Ann ShortBismarck$259
- 7Alison VetterMandan$94
- 8Katey MonetteGrand Forks$89
- 9Marlee LeonardGrand Forks$89
- 10Melissa JohnFargo$49