Otolaryngology in Iowa
103 providers, $743,366 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $776.
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 clinicians in Iowa
Across 71 otolaryngology clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $11,704,138 in total — an average of $164,847 each, of which $164,732 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
- 1Thomas HeinemanCedar Rapids$373,128
- 2Bruce GantzIowa City$169,733
- 3Nancy BaumanIowa City$30,988
- 4Simon WrightWest Des Moines$20,534
- 5Robert PettisOskaloosa$9,745
- 6Brian AndrewsIowa City$8,937
- 7Douglas HoisingtonWest Des Moines$7,649
- 8Joseph WhitmanGrinnell$6,629
- 9Douglas BennionIowa City$6,165
- 10Timothy SimplotWest Des Moines$6,019
- 11Matthew BrownDes Moines$4,883
- 12Grace NimmonsIowa City$4,409
- 13Henry HoffmanIowa City$4,343
- 14David WagnerSioux City$4,213
- 15Kenny RodriguezWaterloo$4,115
- 16Madia RussilloCedar Rapids$3,836
- 17Douglas HenrichWest Burlington$3,520
- 18Arun GuptaWest Des Moines$3,334
- 19Andrew LiuCedar Rapids$3,305
- 20Michael ReedIowa City$3,168
- 21Timothy DettmerMason City$2,933
- 22Vishram JalukarMason City$2,927
- 23Ryan KrogmannDavenport$2,851
- 24Cori WalkerMason City$2,643
- 25Zaid Al-QurayshiIowa City$2,557
- 26Megan JensenIowa City$2,497
- 27Prashanth PrabakaranIowa City$2,269
- 28Eytan YoungWest Des Moines$2,128
- 29Ryan DempewolfCedar Rapids$2,116
- 30Elyse HanlyIowa City$2,109
- 31Stephen GriffithWest Des Moines$2,045
- 32Elise ChengIowa City$2,034
- 33Felix GonzalesFort Dodge$1,888
- 34Heidi ClosePella$1,810
- 35Michael TomekDavenport$1,776
- 36Joseph BertrocheWest Des Moines$1,719
- 37Danielle LiudahlWest Des Moines$1,678
- 38Joshua EspelundSpencer$1,527
- 39Daniel LeeMason City$1,414
- 40Ryan SmithIowa City$1,346
- 41Tyler Willman SrDubuque$1,314
- 42Daniel GivensDubuque$1,310
- 43Stephanie BurgerSioux City$1,295
- 44Adam SchwaljeIowa City$1,053
- 45Sonam DodhiaWaterloo$983
- 46Richard RinehartWest Des Moines$954
- 47John ZieglerIowa City$880
- 48Thomas BendaDubuque$875
- 49Tracey WellendorfCarroll$866
- 50Austin BancroftAmes$863
- 51Jennifer BergeWest Burlington$834
- 52Jasmine HernandezCedar Rapids$776
- 53Maher YounesWest Des Moines$749
- 54Douglas DvorakDavenport$735
- 55Gregory WhiteDubuque$634
- 56Douglas SchulteWest Des Moines$587
- 57Ralph TynerDavenport$527
- 58Henry DiggelmannMason City$459
- 59Andrew StevensonWest Des Moines$459
- 60Matthew MorganClive$410