Otolaryngology/Facial Plastic Surgery in Iowa
17 providers, $22,352 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 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Iowa
Across 11 otolaryngology/facial plastic surgery clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,425,652 in total — an average of $129,605 each, of which $129,576 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
- 1Shane GailushasCedar Rapids$5,836
- 2Melanie Giesler-SpellmanCedar Rapids$2,971
- 3Thomas SimpsonIowa City$2,142
- 4Marc PolaccoNorth Liberty$1,886
- 5Douglas VandaeleIowa City$1,552
- 6Jay BurmeisterDavenport$1,439
- 7Cassie CarneyClinton$1,226
- 8Jeremy VosIowa City$1,054
- 9Daniel OlneyIowa City$1,016
- 10David CongdonWaterloo$820
- 11Mary Susan PruzinskyWaterloo$676
- 12Dwayne CapperIowa City$595
- 13Jeffrey KrivitCedar Rapids$393
- 14Thomas VinerIowa City$371
- 15Kevin CarpenterCedar Rapids$234
- 16Brett BaldwinWest Des Moines$93
- 17John CanadyIowa City$46