Orthopaedic Surgery in South Dakota
92 providers, $14,750,077 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $3,305.
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 South Dakota
Across 77 orthopaedic surgery clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $12,332,249 in total — an average of $160,159 each, of which $157,166 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
- 1Stuart FrommRapid City$13,319,979
- 2Keith BaumgartenSioux Falls$285,575
- 3Nathan SkelleySioux Falls$190,569
- 4John FarynaSioux Falls$159,887
- 5Clark DucheneRapid City$106,558
- 6Geoffrey HaftSioux Falls$84,136
- 7Ray JensenSpearfish$57,432
- 8Anthony FiegenSioux Falls$45,066
- 9Alan YanSioux Falls$40,332
- 10Nathan JacobsonRapid City$37,855
- 11Jeffrey MarrsRapid City$36,373
- 12Michael AdlerSioux Falls$27,840
- 13Gregory NeelySioux Falls$25,782
- 14Christian GaffneyRapid City$25,515
- 15Clint BengeSioux Falls$18,456
- 16Jason HurdSioux Falls$15,500
- 17Joshua HockettDakota Dunes$14,723
- 18Brian JohnsonDakota Dunes$13,812
- 19Justin DeansDakota Dunes$12,963
- 20Benjamin WaltersSioux Falls$12,751
- 21Harvey OliverSioux Falls$11,783
- 22James MacdougallAberdeen$10,909
- 23Luke RasmussenSioux Falls$10,829
- 24Joshua MeaikeSioux Falls$7,764
- 25Dalton McDanielAberdeen$7,647
- 26Carl BechtoldSioux Falls$7,475
- 27Joseph CarreauDakota Dunes$7,368
- 28Benjamin BissellDakota Dunes$7,361
- 29Ryan MeisDakota Dunes$7,272
- 30Joshua KolzRapid City$7,181
- 31Ryan TodhunterSioux Falls$7,128
- 32Chad KurtenbachSioux Falls$6,956
- 33Shawn LerewSioux Falls$6,782
- 34Patrick O'BrienSioux Falls$6,320
- 35Joseph HumpherysRapid City$5,664
- 36Travis LiddellSioux Falls$5,425
- 37Robert WoodruffRapid City$5,380
- 38Benjamin LancasterYankton$5,263
- 39Casey JohnstonWatertown$4,778
- 40Mark HeidenreichSioux Falls$3,889
- 41Joshua JohnsonSioux Falls$3,860
- 42Daniel NelsonDakota Dunes$3,816
- 43Michael DevishSioux Falls$3,813
- 44Lew PapendickRapid City$3,698
- 45Emmett McEleneyRapid City$3,694
- 46Steven StokesbaryDakota Dunes$3,305
- 47Kipp GouldSpearfish$3,156
- 48Steven GiuseffiRapid City$3,104
- 49Michael KadrmasRapid City$2,989
- 50Erik PetersonSioux Falls$2,773
- 51Gonzalo SanchezPierre$2,608
- 52Samuel MortimerRapid City$2,597
- 53Bryan LarsonRapid City$2,575
- 54Kristofer KimberSioux Falls$2,440
- 55Michael EspirituDakota Dunes$2,376
- 56Paul MillerRapid City$2,315
- 57Walter CarlsonSioux Falls$2,280
- 58Rachel MichaelRapid City$2,172
- 59Daniel KensingerDakota Dunes$2,153
- 60Gene KimSioux Falls$2,055