Surgical Critical Care in Iowa
12 providers, $98,294 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 surgical critical care clinicians in Iowa
Across 9 surgical critical care clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $446,635 in total — an average of $49,626 each, of which $49,626 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
- 1Lucy WibbenmeyerIowa City$40,909
- 2Joseph LoshDes Moines$13,111
- 3Jeffrey NeitzelDes Moines$12,401
- 4Ea-Sle ChangDes Moines$9,948
- 5Lawrence SannDes Moines$9,195
- 6John PopovichDes Moines$5,368
- 7Michael DevriesIowa City$4,271
- 8Jeannette CapellaDes Moines$934
- 9Peter TonuiDes Moines$760
- 10Carlos Pelaez GilDes Moines$741
- 11Kristen ReedeIowa City$540
- 12Aidan CharlesMason City$118