Pain Medicine in South Dakota
15 providers, $81,068 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 South Dakota
Across 10 pain medicine clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,397,707 in total — an average of $139,771 each, of which $137,285 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 MetzSioux Falls$36,359
- 2James DreessenSioux Falls$8,880
- 3Brent ThurnessSioux Falls$7,443
- 4Jeremy PoulsenDakota Dunes$5,387
- 5Shawna SchmidtAberdeen$5,327
- 6John CookDakota Dunes$4,938
- 7James BrunzSioux Falls$4,901
- 8Frederick FisherDakota Dunes$4,239
- 9Patrick RetterathWatertown$1,249
- 10Samuel BartmessSioux Falls$995
- 11Thomas BoetelSioux Falls$581
- 12Todd JohnsonDakota Dunes$370
- 13Christopher JanssenSioux Falls$203
- 14Scott LockwoodSioux Falls$134
- 15William CohenYankton$61