Anatomic Pathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $23,529,760 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,171
- Received a payment
- 1,149 (98.1%)
- Total reported
- $23.5M
- Average, those paid
- $20,478
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 anatomic pathology clinicians
Across 787 anatomic pathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $87,402,898 in total — an average of $111,058 each, of which $111,058 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 | 154 | $16,400,846 | $106,499 |
| New York | 152 | $1,090,210 | $7,172 |
| Massachusetts | 119 | $940,202 | $7,901 |
| Nevada | 1 | $610,261 | $610,261 |
| Maryland | 39 | $460,623 | $11,811 |
| Virginia | 21 | $451,167 | $21,484 |
| Florida | 64 | $426,841 | $6,669 |
| Washington | 19 | $425,716 | $22,406 |
| Connecticut | 28 | $425,030 | $15,180 |
| Texas | 72 | $380,907 | $5,290 |
| Michigan | 36 | $296,892 | $8,247 |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | $278,171 | $4,152 |
| Tennessee | 29 | $251,323 | $8,666 |
| Arizona | 12 | $234,973 | $19,581 |
| Ohio | 36 | $158,998 | $4,417 |
| Alabama | 31 | $119,280 | $3,848 |
| North Carolina | 24 | $100,270 | $4,178 |
| South Carolina | 7 | $76,650 | $10,950 |
| Arkansas | 8 | $58,809 | $7,351 |
| Illinois | 39 | $57,451 | $1,473 |
| Missouri | 24 | $54,089 | $2,254 |
| Oregon | 11 | $41,619 | $3,784 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | $36,409 | $4,045 |
| Minnesota | 17 | $31,722 | $1,866 |
| New Jersey | 16 | $20,186 | $1,262 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $19,797 | $3,299 |
| Louisiana | 17 | $18,458 | $1,086 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $10,537 | $5,269 |
| Georgia | 25 | $9,938 | $398 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | $7,113 | $1,016 |
| Indiana | 8 | $6,919 | $865 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | $5,716 | $572 |
| Colorado | 7 | $4,343 | $620 |
| New Hampshire | 6 | $4,225 | $704 |
| Mississippi | 6 | $3,699 | $617 |
| New Mexico | 4 | $2,693 | $673 |
| Puerto Rico | 10 | $2,539 | $254 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $2,121 | $1,060 |
| Iowa | 7 | $1,043 | $149 |
| Kansas | 5 | $1,031 | $206 |
| Kentucky | 7 | $446 | $64 |
| Delaware | 2 | $131 | $65 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $72 | $72 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $63 | $63 |
| Idaho | 1 | $44 | $44 |
| Utah | 1 | $19 | $19 |