Optometry in South Dakota
11 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 South Dakota
Across 11 optometry clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $237,595 in total — an average of $21,600 each, of which $21,600 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
- 1Jason LorenzAberdeen$0
- 2Dezaray VarlandFort Meade$0
- 3Michael BogaardEllsworth Afb$0
- 4Royce GrimsrudSisseton$0
- 5Ryan ArltBeresford$0
- 6Ashley CrouchSioux Falls$0
- 7Kevin CrouchSioux Falls$0
- 8James BarnettSioux Falls$0
- 9Mark WincklerPine Ridge$0
- 10L MenningChamberlain$0
- 11Nancy HetlandMitchell$0