Radiation Oncology in Montana
18 providers, $14,428 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 radiation oncology clinicians in Montana
Across 16 radiation oncology clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,019,918 in total — an average of $188,745 each, of which $188,745 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
- 1Berna DemalignonGreat Falls$4,791
- 2Christopher BakerBozeman$2,397
- 3Carolyn RutterGreat Falls$1,748
- 4Jeffrey EshlemanKalispell$1,253
- 5Joseph ClydeGreat Falls$1,165
- 6Justin LinamKalispell$687
- 7Ralf KiehlSidney$538
- 8Trent MihalickBillings$352
- 9John SchallenkampBillings$274
- 10Michelle ProperMissoula$245
- 11Gordon StillieKalispell$231
- 12Breanne TerakedisBillings$214
- 13Elizabeth TapenBig Sky$154
- 14Rebecca TarltonBillings$134
- 15Christopher GouletBillings$127
- 16Frank LammBillings$118
- 17Jeffrey StephensonMissoula$0
- 18Margaret MenendezMissoula$0