Hospice and Palliative Medicine in Minnesota
12 providers, $1,077 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 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Minnesota
Across 8 hospice and palliative medicine clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $180,145 in total — an average of $22,518 each, of which $22,518 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
- 1Miguel Ruiz-DiazMinneapolis$193
- 2Amanda LorenzRochester$180
- 3David LockMinneapolis$177
- 4Olivia BurkeRochester$136
- 5Nathan DeweyStaples$124
- 6David GilbertsonLakeville$84
- 7Jonathan LeeMinneapolis$55
- 8Anna CoxMinneapolis$43
- 9Dean FoxDuluth$40
- 10Jason HughesWoodbury$28
- 11Jennifer WelshMinneapolis$17
- 12Naomi GoloffMinneapolis$0