Sports Medicine in Montana
23 providers, $208,927 in total reported payments from drug and device makers. Ranked below by lifetime general payments. The median provider in this group received $1,287.
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 sports medicine clinicians in Montana
Across 18 sports medicine clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,791,526 in total — an average of $99,529 each, of which $95,357 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
- 1Phillip SteeleHelena$75,397
- 2Brandon BeamerBozeman$72,234
- 3Joshua BowlerBillings$25,109
- 4Jessica HartGreat Falls$7,675
- 5Julienne LippeLibby$6,306
- 6Mark DeibertBozeman$5,115
- 7Noah MarksBillings$3,481
- 8Alexander LegrandBozeman$2,944
- 9Timothy ObrienBozeman$2,024
- 10Peter KelleherBozeman$1,919
- 11Andrew BlackmanGreat Falls$1,322
- 12Guy SchmidtBillings$1,287
- 13Michael FerrellBozeman$1,071
- 14Erik AdamsBozeman$935
- 15John CampbellBozeman$557
- 16Patrick ThomasGreat Falls$378
- 17Colin SherrillMissoula$294
- 18Michael WrightPolson$256
- 19Joshua LiderHelena$164
- 20Brian AbbottHelena$123
- 21Carla FritzMissoula$117
- 22Gregory TierneyGreat Falls$110
- 23Flint RayGreat Falls$109