Podiatrist in Montana
11 providers, $58,276 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 podiatrist clinicians in Montana
Across 10 podiatrist clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $849,934 in total — an average of $84,993 each, of which $84,853 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
- 1Shawn BraunagelBillings$33,772
- 2Trent LottLewistown$7,983
- 3Kevin KundisGreat Falls$4,056
- 4David EkmanBillings$3,652
- 5Katie Kovacich SmithFort Harrision$3,035
- 6Peter JenningsDillon$3,021
- 7James CloughPolson$2,315
- 8Anthony QuebedeauxHelena$224
- 9Philip SchrumpfMissoula$172
- 10Justin HookerShelby$34
- 11Bruce FisherGreat Falls$13