Optometry in Montana
12 providers, $0 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 optometry clinicians in Montana
Across 12 optometry clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $456,963 in total — an average of $38,080 each, of which $38,080 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
- 1Jeffrey HeningerPolson$0
- 2Richard McMasterLewistown$0
- 3Shon WeaverGreat Falls$0
- 4Anthony BaumgartnerButte$0
- 5Rebecca JacksonMissoula$0
- 6Jennifer GannonBrowning$0
- 7Kenneth EthierGreat Falls$0
- 8Mark StanchfieldCut Bank$0
- 9Jessica LemonsBozeman$0
- 10Barbara CohnCrow Agency$0
- 11Jimmy RobertsonGreat Falls$0
- 12Joseph ParksBelgrade$0