Pediatric Cardiology in Iowa
15 providers, $61,320 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 pediatric cardiology clinicians in Iowa
Across 4 pediatric cardiology clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,736 in total — an average of $2,434 each, of which $2,434 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
- 1Ian LawIowa City$22,370
- 2Benjamin HaleIowa City$19,631
- 3Bassel Mohammad NijresIowa City$6,905
- 4Kamel ShibbaniIowa City$5,385
- 5Rajiv DevanagondiIowa City$2,109
- 6Samir ChandraWaterloo$1,412
- 7Vernat ExilIowa City$1,281
- 8Benjamin ReinkingIowa City$1,096
- 9Mark ZittergruenCedar Rapids$384
- 10Dilli BhurtelCedar Rapids$271
- 11Rabia KhanIowa City$140
- 12Gary BeasleyIowa City$107
- 13Stephanie AcostaIowa City$101
- 14Rachel HenningIowa City$71
- 15Deidra AnsahIowa City$56