Pulmonary Disease in South Dakota
35 providers, $778,516 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $424.
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 South Dakota
Across 27 pulmonary disease clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,850,006 in total — an average of $105,556 each, of which $82,623 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
- 1Scott HelbergYankton$621,269
- 2Michael PietilaYankton$79,241
- 3Svien SenneWatertown$12,840
- 4Lori HansenYankton$9,650
- 5Joevasanth DevasahayamSioux Falls$8,127
- 6Matthew TaylorSioux Falls$7,643
- 7Cliff JanikowskiRapid City$6,408
- 8Fady JamousSioux Falls$5,890
- 9Rizan HajalSioux Falls$5,048
- 10Deptmer AshleyAberdeen$5,024
- 11Kaitlin BranickSioux Falls$4,572
- 12Anna PlemmonsSioux Falls$2,615
- 13Mohammed AwadSioux Falls$2,101
- 14Ashraf ElshamiSioux Falls$2,073
- 15John YuSioux Falls$1,765
- 16Rajaganesh RajagopalanSioux Falls$964
- 17Ross BaconSioux Falls$599
- 18Ryan HydeSioux Falls$424
- 19Travis HansonSioux Falls$325
- 20Bryton PermanRapid City$304
- 21James McCaffertyRapid City$301
- 22Amit GuptaSioux Falls$300
- 23Susan RohrSioux Falls$281
- 24Dayna GroskreutzSioux Falls$113
- 25Richard HardieSioux Falls$102
- 26Debbie Anne QuaSioux Falls$97
- 27Devin BissoonSioux Falls$80
- 28Sharoon SamuelSioux Falls$77
- 29Anuj ShivalingaiahRapid City$76
- 30Noel Dexter TiangcoSioux Falls$67
- 31David ThomasSioux Falls$48
- 32Thomas LemireRapid City$33
- 33Javier Bogarin GeymayrRapid City$22
- 34Elmo RosarioRapid City$18
- 35Mustafa AliSioux Falls$17