Obstetrics in Iowa
8 providers, $12,464 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 obstetrics clinicians in Iowa
Across 4 obstetrics clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $47,381 in total — an average of $11,845 each, of which $11,845 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
- 1Richard EppeyCedar Rapids$11,191
- 2Jane LyonsCedar Rapids$340
- 3Maureen Boyle-ManganaroCouncil Bluffs$307
- 4Annemarie GilleyIowa City$168
- 5Maren BettermannIowa City$148
- 6Meaghan ShanahanCouncil Bluffs$134
- 7Diana KaufmanAnkeny$109
- 8Kate FerrellSioux City$67