Infectious Disease in Montana
22 providers, $7,208 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $136.
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 infectious disease clinicians in Montana
Across 18 infectious disease clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $803,933 in total — an average of $44,663 each, of which $44,663 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
- 1Jeffrey TjadenBozeman$1,785
- 2Nabiya SiddiquiGreat Falls$1,132
- 3Benedict PainterBozeman$1,079
- 4Tsun Sheng KuBillings$1,059
- 5Marco LorioMissoula$533
- 6Joshua ChristensenMissoula$281
- 7Elias BaiedGreat Falls$262
- 8Leslie WhitneyMissoula$233
- 9Raymond GeyerGreat Falls$207
- 10Davis MannBillings$150
- 11Martin Prager SanchezBillings$136
- 12David ChristiansenMissoula$126
- 13Peter BulgerBozeman$69
- 14Anne StevensBillings$62
- 15Camilla ReeseBillings$42
- 16Staci LeeBillings$22
- 17Jessika HinzBozeman$19
- 18David GrahamBillings$13
- 19Patricia Isabella RondainBillings$0
- 20David TaylorBozeman$0
- 21Mark WintonBozeman$0
- 22Claude TonnerreMissoula$0