Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck in Minnesota
9 providers, $3,245 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 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Minnesota
Across 6 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians in Minnesota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $48,176 in total — an average of $8,029 each, of which $8,029 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
- 1Katherine WalleriusRochester$1,052
- 2Kelly StarichaRochester$692
- 3Benhoor SoumekhMinneapolis$389
- 4Travis HallerRochester$371
- 5Nicholas RandallRochester$231
- 6Dante MerlinoRochester$213
- 7Zachary HuttingerRochester$189
- 8Heather SmithRochester$66
- 9Peter HilgerMinneapolis$42