Internal Medicine in Montana
244 providers, $393,760 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $38.
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 internal medicine clinicians in Montana
Across 194 internal medicine clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,944,999 in total — an average of $71,881 each, of which $70,091 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
- 1Joseph PeilaBillings$147,725
- 2Kari KaleBillings$83,300
- 3Hayley MillerMissoula$66,513
- 4John PullmanButte$18,717
- 5Tracy RauschBillings$11,213
- 6Brian HessBillings$7,841
- 7David ChamberlainButte$7,778
- 8Stacy KingslandGreat Falls$5,072
- 9Jessica HogeBillings$4,113
- 10Nicholas TrumGreat Falls$2,239
- 11Bradford BergmanGreat Falls$2,187
- 12Steven ChrzanowskiGreat Falls$2,012
- 13Kimberly DamrowMissoula$1,786
- 14David ObriantMissoula$1,610
- 15Justen RudolphBillings$1,501
- 16Scott BurkGreat Falls$1,449
- 17Michael MetzgerBillings$1,369
- 18Kathleen BlairGreat Falls$1,309
- 19Christopher GillKalispell$1,285
- 20Sean SnyderMissoula$1,261
- 21Joe GregoryButte$1,139
- 22David HabelKalispell$981
- 23John CourchesneHamilton$821
- 24Aaron MausGlendive$760
- 25David JordanHelena$753
- 26Marise JohnsonKalispell$683
- 27Katherine ZitelloGreat Falls$682
- 28Eve GerasimouGreat Falls$661
- 29Lucinda HusbyBillings$659
- 30Terry SmithPolson$567
- 31Faust AlvarezHelena$509
- 32Glenne GuntherLibby$480
- 33Michael SpinelliBozeman$470
- 34Elizabeth WhiteWhitefish$464
- 35Stephen EvansKalispell$429
- 36Ann BukacekKalispell$409
- 37Paul SiddowayButte$374
- 38Jamie HettickKalispell$360
- 39Florian CorteseButte$355
- 40Rachel HeuerDillon$348
- 41Berilonson OsiroGreat Falls$340
- 42J CaldwellMissoula$326
- 43Douglas NelsonKalispell$326
- 44Otabek ElmurodovBrowning$317
- 45James LeganGreat Falls$312
- 46Aster BerhaneCrow Agency$298
- 47Michael HaganBillings$261
- 48Rajohn KaranjaiSidney$259
- 49Terence HankinsHavre$250
- 50John MorelandHamilton$249
- 51Clare BrownleeMissoula$240
- 52Jerome KesslerSidney$228
- 53Morgan McCarthyMissoula$228
- 54Maria MichaelBozeman$227
- 55Faranak ArganiBillings$220
- 56Kevin HaradaHavre$217
- 57Frederick TaiMissoula$200
- 58Hanna BroniewskaGreat Falls$193
- 59Clancy ConeMissoula$192
- 60Daniel HanbaKalispell$189