Vascular Surgery in Montana
10 providers, $63,973 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 vascular surgery clinicians in Montana
Across 10 vascular surgery clinicians in Montana who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,220,878 in total — an average of $222,088 each, of which $222,088 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
- 1Nolan MannBillings$24,618
- 2Arne OlsenBillings$15,739
- 3Thomas DesmaraisBillings$8,028
- 4Kevin BruenBillings$7,573
- 5Jason HurdMissoula$5,346
- 6Michael RohrerMissoula$1,526
- 7Robert HancockBillings$486
- 8Patrick ObrienMissoula$381
- 9David FortenberryDillon$192
- 10Bennett DykstraKalispell$84