Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $60,480,207 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,139
- Received a payment
- 1,117 (98.1%)
- Total reported
- $60.5M
- Average, those paid
- $54,145
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 22 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 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians
Across 1,008 advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $105,999,507 in total — an average of $105,158 each, of which $104,822 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 111 | $8,840,244 | $79,642 |
| Texas | 75 | $5,173,449 | $68,979 |
| Mississippi | 4 | $5,138,369 | $1,284,592 |
| North Carolina | 31 | $4,156,295 | $134,074 |
| Pennsylvania | 96 | $4,077,409 | $42,473 |
| New York | 106 | $3,600,519 | $33,967 |
| Illinois | 56 | $3,025,530 | $54,027 |
| Georgia | 40 | $2,931,472 | $73,287 |
| Florida | 48 | $2,781,843 | $57,955 |
| Ohio | 62 | $2,580,967 | $41,629 |
| South Carolina | 30 | $2,331,870 | $77,729 |
| Tennessee | 28 | $1,993,458 | $71,195 |
| Virginia | 43 | $1,462,306 | $34,007 |
| Missouri | 26 | $1,376,440 | $52,940 |
| Indiana | 20 | $985,967 | $49,298 |
| Louisiana | 18 | $894,397 | $49,689 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | $809,708 | $80,971 |
| New Jersey | 21 | $784,089 | $37,338 |
| Massachusetts | 35 | $729,404 | $20,840 |
| Minnesota | 32 | $693,851 | $21,683 |
| Oregon | 13 | $626,473 | $48,190 |
| Alabama | 8 | $579,553 | $72,444 |
| Michigan | 27 | $507,068 | $18,780 |
| Kansas | 11 | $481,951 | $43,814 |
| Washington | 20 | $480,842 | $24,042 |
| Maryland | 19 | $357,967 | $18,840 |
| Nebraska | 7 | $342,628 | $48,947 |
| West Virginia | 5 | $268,638 | $53,728 |
| Utah | 7 | $242,908 | $34,701 |
| Arkansas | 6 | $235,381 | $39,230 |
| Colorado | 14 | $227,909 | $16,279 |
| Montana | 1 | $205,738 | $205,738 |
| Connecticut | 16 | $191,654 | $11,978 |
| Kentucky | 14 | $174,849 | $12,489 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $170,215 | $85,108 |
| Wisconsin | 18 | $159,771 | $8,876 |
| Arizona | 12 | $159,377 | $13,281 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | $154,956 | $19,369 |
| South Dakota | 3 | $150,552 | $50,184 |
| Idaho | 2 | $104,478 | $52,239 |
| Nevada | 1 | $90,053 | $90,053 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | $53,117 | $13,279 |
| Iowa | 15 | $50,481 | $3,365 |
| Alaska | 1 | $43,028 | $43,028 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $24,339 | $12,169 |
| Delaware | 1 | $7,067 | $7,067 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $2,564 | $1,282 |
| Maine | 3 | $1,531 | $510 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $1,280 | $427 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $160 | $160 |