Addiction Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $9,844,677 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,610
- Received a payment
- 1,543 (95.8%)
- Total reported
- $9.8M
- Average, those paid
- $6,380
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 67 who received nothing would produce a number that describes neither group. Totals are dominated by a small number of large royalty and consulting arrangements; the typical payment in this specialty is far smaller than the average implies.
What Medicare pays addiction medicine clinicians
Across 581 addiction medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $27,703,537 in total — an average of $47,683 each, of which $43,064 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.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 47 | $2,531,161 | $53,854 |
| Pennsylvania | 82 | $1,314,488 | $16,030 |
| Florida | 101 | $1,060,652 | $10,502 |
| California | 190 | $780,625 | $4,109 |
| North Carolina | 42 | $520,683 | $12,397 |
| New York | 125 | $507,506 | $4,060 |
| Ohio | 98 | $448,983 | $4,581 |
| Louisiana | 28 | $434,634 | $15,523 |
| Tennessee | 76 | $349,309 | $4,596 |
| Missouri | 17 | $192,730 | $11,337 |
| Texas | 42 | $185,923 | $4,427 |
| Massachusetts | 57 | $185,482 | $3,254 |
| Michigan | 62 | $165,209 | $2,665 |
| Arizona | 37 | $159,993 | $4,324 |
| Oregon | 30 | $139,229 | $4,641 |
| Kentucky | 40 | $135,649 | $3,391 |
| Virginia | 44 | $87,565 | $1,990 |
| Indiana | 30 | $68,448 | $2,282 |
| Wisconsin | 19 | $59,944 | $3,155 |
| New Jersey | 57 | $57,305 | $1,005 |
| Connecticut | 28 | $52,088 | $1,860 |
| Alabama | 14 | $51,607 | $3,686 |
| Washington | 39 | $48,985 | $1,256 |
| Georgia | 35 | $41,227 | $1,178 |
| Colorado | 25 | $32,108 | $1,284 |
| Maine | 14 | $25,162 | $1,797 |
| Nevada | 7 | $24,530 | $3,504 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | $23,185 | $1,159 |
| Utah | 21 | $22,783 | $1,085 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $19,090 | $19,090 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $13,873 | $3,468 |
| Minnesota | 21 | $13,712 | $653 |
| Idaho | 5 | $12,139 | $2,428 |
| Maryland | 34 | $10,048 | $296 |
| West Virginia | 15 | $9,489 | $633 |
| New Mexico | 10 | $7,801 | $780 |
| Puerto Rico | 12 | $7,028 | $586 |
| Vermont | 4 | $6,884 | $1,721 |
| South Carolina | 11 | $6,729 | $612 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | $6,541 | $1,308 |
| Rhode Island | 8 | $5,920 | $740 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | $4,795 | $533 |
| Iowa | 5 | $2,590 | $518 |
| Mississippi | 8 | $2,531 | $316 |
| Hawaii | 7 | $1,849 | $264 |
| Nebraska | 3 | $1,642 | $547 |
| Kansas | 5 | $1,559 | $312 |
| Wyoming | 2 | $1,220 | $610 |
| Montana | 5 | $938 | $188 |
| Delaware | 4 | $774 | $194 |
| Alaska | 5 | $331 | $66 |