Orthopaedic Surgery in Kansas
197 providers, $3,346,916 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,614.
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 clinicians in Kansas
Across 136 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in Kansas who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $28,203,117 in total — an average of $207,376 each, of which $199,648 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
- 1David AndersonKansas City$490,385
- 2Brandon CarlsonKansas City$299,262
- 3Jacob DeisterTopeka$185,429
- 4Harold EllsworthLeawood$154,050
- 5Tyler BronWichita$107,331
- 6William ReedLenexa$106,213
- 7Alexander BaileyOverland Park$98,784
- 8Brent WiseKansas City$96,836
- 9Joshua LockerLeawood$91,274
- 10Jeffrey ShepherdWichita$87,242
- 11Jacob StueveLeawood$76,398
- 12Brian IpsenGalena$65,679
- 13Olusegun OnibonojeTopeka$64,707
- 14Scott AdrianWichita$58,067
- 15Nicholas DuethmanManhattan$57,263
- 16John BleazardOverland Park$55,975
- 17Jordan WillisEmporia$48,097
- 18Glenn AmundsonPrairie Village$46,180
- 19Andrew MerwinWichita$44,963
- 20Cameron LedfordOverland Park$44,699
- 21Casey WhaleTopeka$42,450
- 22Jeffrey SalinOverland Park$40,885
- 23Timothy CareyManhattan$37,970
- 24Travis RumpSalina$37,550
- 25Richard VantienderenFort Riley$35,810
- 26John SchroeppelKansas City$27,550
- 27Gerard LibrodoEl Dorado$26,600
- 28Paul EnnsWichita$26,567
- 29Justin StricklandWichita$25,985
- 30Mitchell BirtKansas City$25,729
- 31Nicholas TingLeawood$23,353
- 32Spencer FalconKansas City$22,972
- 33Bryan VopatKansas City$21,780
- 34Randall HildebrandGreat Bend$20,646
- 35Peter AdamsonLeawood$20,563
- 36Aneel JiwanlalOlathe$19,482
- 37Katie SmeltzerKansas City$18,557
- 38Brian KindredOverland Park$18,483
- 39Sean BonanniLeawood$15,342
- 40Suhel KotwalLeawood$13,801
- 41Alok ShahDodge City$13,603
- 42Howard RosenthalOverland Park$13,344
- 43Abhijeet KadamNewton$12,705
- 44Kashif AshfaqDodge City$12,662
- 45Andrew NelsonGalena$12,463
- 46Everett WilkinsonKansas City$12,222
- 47Jeffrey McIntoshLeawood$11,576
- 48Toby MooreGalena$11,478
- 49Jacob BrubacherKansas City$11,294
- 50Christopher PeerLeawood$11,187
- 51Erik SeverudHutchinson$11,168
- 52Linda MartinGarden City$11,107
- 53John OgdenGalena$10,738
- 54Levi KindelWichita$9,597
- 55Michael SmithTopeka$9,515
- 56Andrew ChanFort Riley$9,437
- 57John CarlisleLeawood$9,321
- 58Scott HaskinsWichita$9,303
- 59Kevin HoferWichita$9,139
- 60Aaron WeberGalena$8,880