Addiction (Substance Use Disorder): industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $8,590 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 38
- Received a payment
- 38 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $9K
- Average, those paid
- $226
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 0 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 (substance use disorder) clinicians
Across 1 addiction (substance use disorder) clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,396 in total — an average of $10,396 each, of which $10,396 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 2 | $3,473 | $1,737 |
| Ohio | 9 | $1,635 | $182 |
| New York | 5 | $1,100 | $220 |
| California | 4 | $699 | $175 |
| Florida | 2 | $334 | $167 |
| Alaska | 2 | $240 | $120 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $239 | $239 |
| Indiana | 1 | $214 | $214 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $198 | $99 |
| Michigan | 3 | $163 | $54 |
| Washington | 1 | $151 | $151 |
| Virginia | 1 | $67 | $67 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $40 | $20 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $27 | $14 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $11 | $11 |