Primary Care in South Dakota
14 providers, $10,061 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 primary care clinicians in South Dakota
Across 8 primary care clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $61,778 in total — an average of $7,722 each, of which $7,722 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
- 1Meghann WarnkeRapid City$4,008
- 2Rebecca KrivarchkaSioux Falls$3,404
- 3Amber WhempnerSioux Falls$723
- 4Kasey KernerWinner$510
- 5Joshua KatzSioux Falls$496
- 6Sarah FuerstenbergSioux Falls$407
- 7Melissa DayMc Intosh$186
- 8Nicole CottonSioux Falls$157
- 9Theresa HammerquistRapid City$66
- 10Brittany SchaeferDell Rapids$33
- 11Danielle KarberSioux Falls$23
- 12Sara SpartzSioux Falls$21
- 13Nicole CoyleRapid City$13
- 14Laura CraigFort Meade$13