Surgical Oncology in Iowa
15 providers, $10,481 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 oncology clinicians in Iowa
Across 12 surgical oncology clinicians in Iowa who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $702,771 in total — an average of $58,564 each, of which $58,564 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
- 1Viet leDes Moines$3,379
- 2Jan FrankoDes Moines$2,439
- 3Rushin BrahmbhattDes Moines$1,552
- 4Susan BeckClive$1,425
- 5Devon FosterClive$543
- 6James HoweIowa City$468
- 7Scott ShermanIowa City$155
- 8Xiang GaoIowa City$136
- 9James de AndradeIowa City$110
- 10Nicholas RossiIowa City$97
- 11Carlos ChanIowa City$70
- 12Ronald WeigelIowa City$51
- 13Hisakazu HoshiIowa City$38
- 14Ingrid LizarragaIowa City$17
- 15Geeta LalIowa City$0