Obstetrics in Missouri
15 providers, $60,142 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 Missouri
Across 5 obstetrics clinicians in Missouri who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $71,659 in total — an average of $14,332 each, of which $14,332 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
- 1Nathan RatchfordRolla$26,832
- 2Lola LoebSt. Louis$17,169
- 3Carrisann WoodsBranson$10,414
- 4Richard MuckermanChesterfield$2,164
- 5Donald LangeSaint Louis$1,357
- 6Halley StaplesSaint Louis$533
- 7Carl PattyPoplar Bluff$496
- 8Katherine ChenRichmond Heights$392
- 9Regina KizerSpringfield$196
- 10Uneeda LeverettLees Summit$182
- 11Najat Al-SherriArnold$123
- 12Erica MelroseSpringfield$120
- 13Devon O'BrienKansas City$113
- 14Ann BehrendCape Girardeau$31
- 15Dianna HickmanKansas City$19