Obesity Medicine in Missouri
8 providers, $41,099 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 obesity medicine clinicians in Missouri
Across 4 obesity medicine clinicians in Missouri who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $117,638 in total — an average of $29,410 each, of which $29,410 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
- 1Brooke SweeneyKansas City$29,345
- 2Russell ImbodenEureka$2,998
- 3Rafael AlvarezSaint Joseph$2,727
- 4Katy WilliamsMoberly$2,575
- 5Christina FleresNorth Kansas City$1,523
- 6Lindsay OgleWildwood$1,040
- 7Manasi HulyalkarFenton$831
- 8Brenda WellsSpringfield$60