Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) in Idaho
18 providers, $640,532 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 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in Idaho
Across 15 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in Idaho who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,316,880 in total — an average of $87,792 each, of which $87,792 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
- 1Stephen JonesBoise$315,916
- 2Robert FarivarBoise$140,312
- 3Julio VasquezPocatello$48,185
- 4Ashley MorganBoise$30,005
- 5Benedict TaylorBoise$25,903
- 6Matthew SchoolfieldBoise$22,250
- 7Melissa CheersIdaho Falls$15,485
- 8Edward SetserIdaho Falls$14,002
- 9Andrew MesherBoise$8,494
- 10Rosemarie SerroneBoise$6,888
- 11David StuesseBoise$3,892
- 12Robert BurnettCoeur D Alene$3,759
- 13Denis RaleighIdaho Falls$2,628
- 14Tori LennoxCoeur D Alene$1,080
- 15Stephen FallBoise$903
- 16Andrew ForbesBoise$447
- 17Fernando RiveronBoise$324
- 18Steven HuerdBoise$58