Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine in Idaho
12 providers, $2,021,568 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 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Idaho
Across 11 orthopaedic surgery of the spine clinicians in Idaho who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,807,574 in total — an average of $164,325 each, of which $164,263 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
- 1Roland KentPost Falls$1,147,188
- 2Samuel JorgensonMeridian$380,943
- 3Daniel BlizzardPost Falls$269,454
- 4David GlassmanPost Falls$77,316
- 5William BradleyMeridian$69,503
- 6Gregory DietrichLewiston$41,537
- 7Stephen HansenPocatello$14,714
- 8David VerstHailey$9,976
- 9Mark WeightIdaho Falls$7,559
- 10Benjamin BlairPocatello$1,378
- 11Lynn StrombergIdaho Falls$1,084
- 12Michael GloverBoise$913