Nephrology in Montana
19 providers, $130,518 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 nephrology clinicians in Montana
Across 18 nephrology clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,905,994 in total — an average of $161,444 each, of which $159,906 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
- 1Ruslan SoldyshevGreat Falls$82,554
- 2Michael GanzBillings$43,155
- 3Gabor Bodonyi-KovacsKalispell$1,396
- 4Scot BornKalispell$668
- 5Kristen ZackBillings$652
- 6Benjamin LawsonMissoula$471
- 7Jonathan JakubowskiBillings$300
- 8Robert ValleauKalispell$260
- 9Christopher RichBozeman$247
- 10Anna JovanovichBozeman$158
- 11Ali Riza KoksalBillings$144
- 12Tobin HoppesKalispell$122
- 13Cindy SharpBozeman$117
- 14Varghese ParambiGreat Falls$91
- 15Jonathan McNeelyMissoula$80
- 16John LakatuaMissoula$40
- 17Grace KimBillings$23
- 18Shahid ChaudharyMissoula$20
- 19Kendrick TrostelBillings$19