Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) in North Dakota
12 providers, $31,474 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 North Dakota
Across 9 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in North Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $838,117 in total — an average of $93,124 each, of which $93,124 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
- 1Judah AskewFargo$7,078
- 2Mohanad ElshiekhBismarck$5,978
- 3Boyd MartsFargo$4,911
- 4Barry BjorgaardGrand Forks$4,189
- 5Charles CanverFargo$3,485
- 6Gurjyot BajwaFargo$2,384
- 7Saeed AllyFargo$1,355
- 8James WrightGrand Forks$901
- 9Roxanne NewmanFargo$521
- 10Cyril TabeMinot$419
- 11Alexander SteinFargo$178
- 12Allen BoothBismarck$74