Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) in South Dakota
13 providers, $251,182 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 South Dakota
Across 7 thoracic surgery (cardiothoracic vascular surgery) clinicians in South Dakota who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,097,983 in total — an average of $156,855 each, of which $156,855 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
- 1John GrehanSioux Falls$187,123
- 2Tommaso CambiaghiRapid City$34,408
- 3Charan MungaraRapid City$10,261
- 4Keung UngSioux Falls$6,808
- 5Paul OrecchiaRapid City$3,439
- 6David MaziarzSioux Falls$3,067
- 7Paul MeyerSioux Falls$2,619
- 8Tommy ReynoldsSioux Falls$1,884
- 9Verlyn NykampSioux Falls$760
- 10Robert GordonRapid City$387
- 11Brian DuxburySioux Falls$228
- 12Steven FeldhausSioux Falls$169
- 13Luyando KalemboSioux Falls$30