Hand Surgery in South Dakota
14 providers, $43,610 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 hand surgery clinicians in South Dakota
Across 14 hand surgery clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,184,581 in total — an average of $156,041 each, of which $127,282 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
- 1Tibor WarganichDakota Dunes$24,908
- 2Elizabeth HelsperSioux Falls$7,275
- 3Robert VandemarkSioux Falls$2,446
- 4Kathlyn DrexlerSioux Falls$2,417
- 5Zachary FinleyRapid City$2,322
- 6David JonesSioux Falls$1,215
- 7Matthew AndersonSioux Falls$865
- 8Scott McPhersonSioux Falls$756
- 9Rocio Fuentes BarrowSioux Falls$592
- 10Hillary BeckerSioux Falls$439
- 11Aaron DykstraRapid City$147
- 12Kelly McKnight PurcellSioux Falls$124
- 13Richard CurdSioux Falls$85
- 14David LangRapid City$19