Aerospace Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $78,096 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 133
- Received a payment
- 132 (99.2%)
- Total reported
- $78K
- Average, those paid
- $592
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 aerospace medicine clinicians
Across 14 aerospace medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,193,596 in total — an average of $85,257 each, of which $76,076 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 | $18,276 | $6,092 |
| Texas | 15 | $15,190 | $1,013 |
| North Carolina | 8 | $7,805 | $976 |
| Florida | 17 | $6,969 | $410 |
| Nevada | 7 | $5,370 | $767 |
| Ohio | 10 | $5,357 | $536 |
| California | 7 | $3,930 | $561 |
| Maryland | 2 | $3,123 | $1,562 |
| Alabama | 9 | $2,229 | $248 |
| Georgia | 5 | $2,115 | $423 |
| Virginia | 5 | $1,297 | $259 |
| Colorado | 4 | $1,193 | $298 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $1,016 | $339 |
| Utah | 1 | $857 | $857 |
| AP | 4 | $690 | $172 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $343 | $343 |
| Arizona | 2 | $264 | $132 |
| AE | 2 | $262 | $131 |
| Hawaii | 3 | $215 | $72 |
| Alaska | 3 | $204 | $68 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $171 | $171 |
| Delaware | 1 | $156 | $156 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $149 | $75 |
| Michigan | 1 | $137 | $137 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $124 | $62 |
| South Dakota | 2 | $122 | $61 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $121 | $121 |
| Washington | 3 | $92 | $31 |
| Illinois | 2 | $85 | $43 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $76 | $38 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $37 | $37 |
| Idaho | 1 | $34 | $34 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $23 | $23 |
| Missouri | 1 | $18 | $18 |