Optometrist in South Dakota
206 providers, $1,444,497 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $624.
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 optometrist clinicians in South Dakota
Across 172 optometrist clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,076,499 in total — an average of $58,584 each, of which $58,584 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
- 1Justin SchweitzerSioux Falls$753,482
- 2Mitchel IbachSioux Falls$395,178
- 3Jason SchmitSioux Falls$78,746
- 4Darren DohmanAberdeen$21,801
- 5Jeffery SaylerSioux Falls$8,187
- 6Jerika KirwanWagner$6,397
- 7Kayla KarpukSioux Falls$5,915
- 8Steven FergusonDakota Dunes$5,757
- 9Travis LehrSioux Falls$5,242
- 10Matthew ClarkeSioux Falls$4,764
- 11Ryan HaiarSioux Falls$4,439
- 12Kristen KramlichSioux Falls$4,239
- 13Joshua TimsSioux Falls$3,989
- 14Larae ZimprichSioux Falls$3,372
- 15Jarrell FreitagSioux Falls$3,317
- 16Lisa Kollis-YoungSioux Falls$3,264
- 17Matthew MoeSioux Falls$3,210
- 18Aaron FeserYankton$3,033
- 19Phillip BeckerMitchell$2,741
- 20Douglas WallinSioux Falls$2,732
- 21Robert HaederSioux Falls$2,593
- 22Kara LunzmanAberdeen$2,582
- 23Michael OnealNorth Sioux City$2,435
- 24Tiffany BrinkSioux Falls$2,364
- 25William HolecRapid City$2,326
- 26Jeannie DehneSioux Falls$2,285
- 27Angela GulbransonSioux Falls$2,223
- 28Brett LorenzSioux Falls$2,198
- 29Sarah HoudekRapid City$2,190
- 30Eva AndersonSioux Falls$2,183
- 31Jake WardSioux Falls$2,117
- 32Kristin MohrSioux Falls$1,979
- 33Gabrielle AndersonSioux Falls$1,941
- 34Shane VogelSioux Falls$1,864
- 35Marshall DorsettAberdeen$1,806
- 36Bradley MeierWatertown$1,733
- 37Jeremy KeithSioux Falls$1,662
- 38Scott SchirberRapid City$1,657
- 39Melanie WeissWatertown$1,531
- 40Tyler VermeerSioux Falls$1,484
- 41Kevin BrownVermillion$1,444
- 42Aimee SchulteWatertown$1,439
- 43Dawn WattenhoferRapid City$1,421
- 44Mark StrubleWagner$1,419
- 45John OlsonMobridge$1,360
- 46Rebecca LarsonSioux Falls$1,348
- 47Paul GreenfieldSioux Falls$1,335
- 48Sarah KuipersRapid City$1,331
- 49Allison JonesBrandon$1,324
- 50David JonesBrandon$1,276
- 51Craig DockterMobridge$1,268
- 52Alexander PermannChamberlain$1,243
- 53Keith RasmussenSioux Falls$1,238
- 54Michael EllenderRapid City$1,222
- 55Jeffrey BrowenSioux Falls$1,211
- 56Dwayne IceRapid City$1,203
- 57Taylor KneipBrookings$1,196
- 58Joel QuistSioux Falls$1,160
- 59Wyatt Nash-KellerBrookings$1,113
- 60Jill PownellWatertown$1,107