Rheumatology in North Dakota
11 providers, $19,479 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 rheumatology clinicians in North Dakota
Across 11 rheumatology clinicians in North Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $704,519 in total — an average of $64,047 each, of which $64,032 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
- 1Christian DequetBismarck$8,162
- 2Yuri NakasatoFargo$5,913
- 3Jonathan HiltsBismarck$1,823
- 4Esperanza ArgenzianoGrand Forks$1,002
- 5Mosaab MohamedenFargo$793
- 6Nowarat SongsiridejBismarck$665
- 7Viktorija OverieneFargo$636
- 8Erdal DiriMinot$291
- 9Meghan ScheibeFargo$149
- 10Lorna CampbellFargo$45
- 11Mahfooz PeshimamFargo$0