Hematology in Iowa
9 providers, $398,050 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 hematology clinicians in Iowa
Across 9 hematology clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $386,114 in total — an average of $42,902 each, of which $42,902 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
- 1Steven LentzIowa City$192,514
- 2Sabarish AyyappanIowa City$142,126
- 3Michael TomassonIowa City$51,005
- 4Eric MouIowa City$5,315
- 5Prajwal DhakalIowa City$5,047
- 6Hira ShaikhIowa City$1,968
- 7Sharathkumar BhagavathiIowa City$75
- 8Kittika PoonsombudlertIowa City$0
- 9Pedro HsiehIowa City$0