Addiction Psychiatry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $2,087,367 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 372
- Received a payment
- 369 (99.2%)
- Total reported
- $2.1M
- Average, those paid
- $5,657
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 psychiatry clinicians
Across 117 addiction psychiatry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,316,181 in total — an average of $36,890 each, of which $36,890 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 3 | $1,319,809 | $439,936 |
| Florida | 29 | $135,597 | $4,676 |
| New Jersey | 13 | $90,277 | $6,944 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | $62,500 | $3,676 |
| New York | 43 | $49,788 | $1,158 |
| Texas | 25 | $45,830 | $1,833 |
| Maryland | 12 | $44,990 | $3,749 |
| California | 38 | $34,689 | $913 |
| Ohio | 15 | $32,477 | $2,165 |
| Georgia | 22 | $30,248 | $1,375 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | $29,636 | $2,470 |
| Washington | 8 | $26,970 | $3,371 |
| North Carolina | 9 | $25,805 | $2,867 |
| Louisiana | 5 | $25,297 | $5,059 |
| Connecticut | 16 | $23,143 | $1,446 |
| Maine | 2 | $17,826 | $8,913 |
| New Mexico | 7 | $17,607 | $2,515 |
| Tennessee | 8 | $15,926 | $1,991 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | $10,962 | $2,192 |
| Illinois | 5 | $9,401 | $1,880 |
| Virginia | 8 | $7,605 | $951 |
| Alabama | 3 | $4,690 | $1,563 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $4,618 | $2,309 |
| Utah | 5 | $3,526 | $705 |
| Montana | 2 | $2,540 | $1,270 |
| Arizona | 7 | $2,514 | $359 |
| Kentucky | 3 | $2,439 | $813 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $1,852 | $1,852 |
| Michigan | 8 | $1,795 | $224 |
| Kansas | 2 | $1,342 | $671 |
| Colorado | 7 | $1,321 | $189 |
| South Dakota | 2 | $869 | $435 |
| Indiana | 3 | $581 | $194 |
| Wisconsin | 4 | $435 | $109 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 | $421 | $84 |
| Delaware | 1 | $377 | $377 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $374 | $125 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $366 | $183 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $247 | $82 |
| Missouri | 2 | $124 | $62 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $33 | $16 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $21 | $21 |
| Nevada | 1 | $16 | $16 |