Pain Medicine in Montana
15 providers, $35,572 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 pain medicine clinicians in Montana
Across 8 pain medicine clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,564,239 in total — an average of $195,530 each, of which $191,281 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
- 1Timothy StrigenzBozeman$10,050
- 2Patrick DanaherMissoula$6,298
- 3Katrina LewisGreat Falls$5,873
- 4Aaron CrossHelena$4,874
- 5Anna ColesKalispell$3,140
- 6S Dante OrienteGreat Falls$1,901
- 7Craig SweeneyGreat Falls$1,078
- 8Steven MartiniAnaconda$934
- 9Oscar HeymanMissoula$464
- 10Brett BenderMissoula$273
- 11Bradley AylorBozeman$184
- 12Jamal BalouchGreat Falls$156
- 13Karen NelsonMissoula$125
- 14Michael SchabackerBillings$123
- 15Alfred AveryBillings$99