Obstetrics in Utah
15 providers, $40,538 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 Utah
Across 9 obstetrics clinicians in Utah who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $331,279 in total — an average of $36,809 each, of which $31,056 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
- 1James PetersonSalt Lake City$10,887
- 2Layne SmithDraper$7,536
- 3Shane ChristensenSalt Lake City$5,768
- 4Gayle StewartSalt Lake City$4,715
- 5Cameron LeavittSt George$2,718
- 6Thomas ConnerSalt Lake City$2,585
- 7Robert LaterSandy$1,960
- 8Chad LuntSt George$1,609
- 9Douglas AllenPleasant Grove$1,187
- 10Eileen JoyceVernal$1,021
- 11Samuel HeywoodOrem$201
- 12John GriffithVernal$178
- 13Stephen LashWest Valley City$109
- 14Natalie LoewenSalt Lake City$46
- 15Cynthia JonesSalt Lake City$18