Interventional Pain Medicine in Iowa
11 providers, $58,854 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 interventional pain medicine clinicians in Iowa
Across 8 interventional pain medicine clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,378,281 in total — an average of $172,285 each, of which $171,263 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
- 1Arjun RameshDubuque$23,745
- 2Andrzej SzczepanekWest Des Moines$11,836
- 3Alison WeisheiplWest Des Moines$7,883
- 4Ronald KlocMason City$5,103
- 5Thomas KleinDes Moines$3,847
- 6Ashar AfzalWaterloo$2,299
- 7Fredrick DeryNorth Liberty$1,605
- 8Frank HawkinsWaterloo$1,136
- 9Mohammad IqbalDes Moines$631
- 10Christian LedetWest Des Moines$595
- 11Nathan MeloyBettendorf$173