Pulmonary Disease in Montana
43 providers, $139,806 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $520.
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 pulmonary disease clinicians in Montana
Across 35 pulmonary disease clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,321,007 in total — an average of $66,314 each, of which $62,505 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
- 1Gregory LemenseBozeman$39,378
- 2Megan SiskGreat Falls$20,160
- 3John MazurGreat Falls$17,530
- 4Bethany WeilerKalispell$13,788
- 5Gabor VarjuGreat Falls$10,058
- 6Andrew GoldbergBozeman$6,074
- 7Dillon NolandKalispell$6,027
- 8Ryan NahapetianMissoula$4,607
- 9Keith PopovichButte$4,050
- 10Fernando CaceresBillings$2,181
- 11Vineeth KumarBillings$2,027
- 12Timothy ObermillerKalispell$1,518
- 13Frederick KahnBillings$1,446
- 14Gyorgy MundruczoBozeman$1,169
- 15Manfred BaumgartnerBillings$1,109
- 16Merhala BalasubramaniamGreat Falls$1,014
- 17Anthony Dal NogareKalispell$989
- 18Kevin KeetonKalispell$903
- 19Aleksandra KwasnikBillings$840
- 20Andrew FischerBillings$755
- 21Sue FesslerKalispell$558
- 22Nicole PhilipsBillings$520
- 23Robert GrasseschiGreat Falls$458
- 24David PucciBillings$441
- 25Andrew SullivanBozeman$419
- 26Eric SternMissoula$336
- 27Brent PistoreseKalispell$288
- 28Seth ClemensKalispell$228
- 29Erin RainsBillings$161
- 30Sheela AhmedGreat Falls$158
- 31Brittney WardBozeman$146
- 32Shauna BethelBozeman$101
- 33Wallace ProphetKalispell$78
- 34Grzegorz CieslewiczAnaconda$71
- 35Randol HooperBillings$70
- 36Robert CurtisKalispell$34
- 37Robert MerchantBillings$26
- 38Catherine StephensBillings$25
- 39Sean DowGreat Falls$20
- 40Richard KearleyGreat Falls$16
- 41Jamie RihaBillings$15
- 42Robert PueringerBillings$15
- 43William KrauseGreat Falls$0