Primary Care in Montana
20 providers, $196,530 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $146.
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 primary care clinicians in Montana
Across 7 primary care clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $146,304 in total — an average of $20,901 each, of which $20,887 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
- 1Katie BrennanHelena$183,168
- 2Peggy Scharberg ChaffinMissoula$4,326
- 3Erika DuffyBillings$3,905
- 4Aran MacartneyButte$2,255
- 5Kinsey FisherMissoula$737
- 6Rachael AlsburyKalispell$580
- 7Darcy ZantoFort Benton$530
- 8Courtney FunderburkHavre$283
- 9Stacey RiffeMissoula$195
- 10Patricia KellyArlee$146
- 11Matthew AbrahamsonHamilton$73
- 12Teresa SerightBozeman$56
- 13Katelyn LuterBozeman$50
- 14Kelsey DollBozeman$50
- 15Tracey MillerBillings$39
- 16Kjersti DowningColstrip$33
- 17Maria WilliamsPolson$29
- 18Kate MarshMiles City$28
- 19Sara HurleyHarlowton$25
- 20Courtney MontgomeryHelena$23