Sports Medicine in South Dakota
11 providers, $50,301 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 sports medicine clinicians in South Dakota
Across 10 sports medicine clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $683,107 in total — an average of $68,311 each, of which $63,609 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
- 1Hollan HarperRapid City$40,370
- 2Matthew BlakeSioux Falls$6,709
- 3Dustin CollinsSioux Falls$1,615
- 4Jonathan BuchananSioux Falls$786
- 5Seth SchmollSioux Falls$324
- 6Brian ShelmadineRapid City$128
- 7Donella HermanSioux Falls$84
- 8Michael NguyenDakota Dunes$82
- 9Verle ValentineSioux Falls$79
- 10Kenneth PetersonFort Meade$68
- 11Jacob MillerAberdeen$57