Pain Medicine in North Dakota
10 providers, $53,790 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 North Dakota
Across 7 pain medicine clinicians in North Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,058,479 in total — an average of $151,211 each, of which $147,154 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
- 1Patrick GraceBismarck$13,798
- 2Lance DoedenFargo$13,463
- 3Codi GuckFargo$11,792
- 4Michael QuastBismarck$6,324
- 5Melissa SeelbachGrand Forks$4,362
- 6Daniel BennettMinot$3,548
- 7Christine HoglundWilliston$305
- 8Rohit MahajanFargo$119
- 9Micheal TemplerMinot$61
- 10Steven HillGrand Forks$18