Orofacial Pain in Minnesota
10 providers, $1,301 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 orofacial pain clinicians in Minnesota
Across 5 orofacial pain clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $124,151 in total — an average of $24,830 each, of which $24,830 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 FrictonPlymouth$492
- 2Cory HermanMinneapolis$407
- 3Maram TaemaMinneapolis$219
- 4Julianne YuziukMinneapolis$40
- 5Qiman GaoMinneapolis$40
- 6Alexander CrainMinneapolis$28
- 7Saranya VarunBurnsville$23
- 8Connor PeckMinneapolis$20
- 9Graham HarrisMinneapolis$16
- 10Davina KumarMinneapolis$16