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Industry payments to physicians · Wyoming · 2024

Wyoming

In Wyoming, drug and device makers reported $2M in general payments to 1,144 covered recipients (physicians and other clinicians) for 2024 — a mean of $1,505 each — plus $52,742 tied to research and $0 in ownership interests.

A payment is a disclosed financial tie, not proof of wrongdoing — many are research grants, consulting fees, or royalties a physician earns on a device they invented. Transparency, not a verdict.
$2M
general payments
1,144
covered recipients paid
$1,505
mean per physician

Top specialties in Wyoming

General payments by specialty; the figure on the right is the average per physician.

Neurological Surgery $661,591
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine $162,369
Anesthesiology $88,776
Rheumatology $83,228
Family $70,921
Optometrist $60,485
Family Medicine $55,649
Hematology & Oncology $51,731
Surgery $50,390
Orthopaedic Trauma $47,506
Orthopaedic Surgery $38,583
Nurse Practitioner $38,157

Highest-paid physicians in Wyoming

By total general payments, 2024 — largely device royalties to inventor-physicians.

Claudio Feler Neurological Surgery · Cheyenne · top payer: Abbott Laboratories $644,234
Wade Jensen Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Afton · top payer: Arthrex, Inc. $139,772
Horng-Chyi Lai Rheumatology · Gillette · top payer: Amgen Inc. $83,034
Todd Hammond Anesthesiology · Casper · top payer: SI-BONE, Inc. $82,439
Mark Wells Optometrist · Cheyenne · top payer: Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. $49,765
Elie Fahed Hematology & Oncology · Casper · top payer: E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $47,264
John Horberg Orthopaedic Trauma · Laramie · top payer: Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. $46,856
Joseph Schoeber Family Medicine · Casper · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $28,217
Kristina Behringer Unspecified · Cheyenne · top payer: Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $26,320
Jasper Chen Psychiatry · Cheyenne · top payer: Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. $19,070
Jessica Rodriguez Nurse Practitioner · Laramie · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $17,000
Jill Girany Family · Cheyenne · top payer: AbbVie Inc. $16,900
Joseph Mcginley Diagnostic Radiology · Casper · top payer: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc. $15,203
Ron Waeckerlin Cytopathology · Cheyenne · top payer: Vitalant $13,250
Martin Trott Otolaryngology · Jackson · top payer: Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. $11,053
Janelle Hoaglund Psychiatric/Mental Health · Cheyenne · top payer: ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-Cellular Therapies, Inc.) $10,828
Jared Lee Sports Medicine · Cody · top payer: restor3d, inc. $10,248
Lane Smothers Surgery · Casper · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $9,933
Steven Beer Neurological Surgery · Cheyenne · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $9,573
Brenna Kirsch Family · Green River · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $9,287
Aimee Gough Surgery · Casper · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $8,479
Christine Dipompeo Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine · Laramie · top payer: Alphatec Spine, Inc $8,212
Kerry Carr Nurse Practitioner · Jackson · top payer: Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $7,178
Samer Kattan Obstetrics & Gynecology · Rock Springs · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $6,828
Rodney Biggs Surgery · Gillette · top payer: Intuitive Surgical, Inc. $6,717

RECORDED — CMS Open Payments figures for program year 2024. DERIVED — state totals, per-physician means, and rankings are sums over those records.

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What this is — and is not

A disclosure record of industry–physician financial ties in Wyoming — not evidence that any payment influenced care, not a measure of a physician's quality, and not advice about your own doctor. To verify a specific physician, search CMS Open Payments directly.