Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $57,988,127 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 7,658
- Received a payment
- 7,592 (99.1%)
- Total reported
- $58M
- Average, those paid
- $7,638
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 66 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 & clinical pathology clinicians
Across 5,417 anatomic pathology & clinical pathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $676,645,165 in total — an average of $124,911 each, of which $124,438 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 | 814 | $10,855,698 | $13,336 |
| Missouri | 169 | $7,754,203 | $45,883 |
| Arizona | 153 | $5,252,695 | $34,331 |
| Pennsylvania | 357 | $4,670,490 | $13,083 |
| Texas | 736 | $4,375,871 | $5,945 |
| Florida | 510 | $3,518,796 | $6,900 |
| Michigan | 201 | $2,592,734 | $12,899 |
| Tennessee | 234 | $2,367,915 | $10,119 |
| Illinois | 331 | $1,970,289 | $5,953 |
| Massachusetts | 196 | $1,459,431 | $7,446 |
| Maryland | 186 | $1,270,195 | $6,829 |
| New York | 468 | $1,269,478 | $2,713 |
| Ohio | 325 | $1,164,444 | $3,583 |
| Nevada | 52 | $965,282 | $18,563 |
| Minnesota | 92 | $912,308 | $9,916 |
| Washington | 119 | $829,954 | $6,974 |
| North Carolina | 221 | $765,488 | $3,464 |
| New Jersey | 218 | $543,188 | $2,492 |
| Indiana | 137 | $506,716 | $3,699 |
| New Hampshire | 20 | $487,393 | $24,370 |
| Montana | 24 | $443,747 | $18,489 |
| Utah | 57 | $441,232 | $7,741 |
| Colorado | 110 | $414,694 | $3,770 |
| Connecticut | 94 | $381,774 | $4,061 |
| Oregon | 71 | $354,792 | $4,997 |
| Georgia | 223 | $288,328 | $1,293 |
| Arkansas | 89 | $285,731 | $3,210 |
| Maine | 23 | $280,204 | $12,183 |
| Mississippi | 69 | $232,513 | $3,370 |
| Wisconsin | 104 | $192,808 | $1,854 |
| Virginia | 156 | $190,470 | $1,221 |
| Nebraska | 83 | $184,399 | $2,222 |
| South Carolina | 129 | $104,525 | $810 |
| Iowa | 46 | $78,822 | $1,714 |
| New Mexico | 47 | $62,169 | $1,323 |
| Kentucky | 105 | $61,453 | $585 |
| Puerto Rico | 48 | $61,344 | $1,278 |
| Louisiana | 132 | $55,559 | $421 |
| District of Columbia | 33 | $48,487 | $1,469 |
| West Virginia | 48 | $47,868 | $997 |
| Alabama | 115 | $39,297 | $342 |
| Hawaii | 42 | $38,836 | $925 |
| Kansas | 73 | $37,026 | $507 |
| Oklahoma | 72 | $29,313 | $407 |
| Rhode Island | 19 | $27,421 | $1,443 |
| AA | 1 | $26,999 | $26,999 |
| Delaware | 20 | $15,713 | $786 |
| Vermont | 9 | $9,789 | $1,088 |
| AE | 3 | $6,293 | $2,098 |
| South Dakota | 21 | $4,840 | $230 |
| Idaho | 20 | $4,756 | $238 |
| Alaska | 11 | $1,875 | $170 |
| North Dakota | 10 | $1,079 | $108 |
| AP | 3 | $296 | $99 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $252 | $252 |
| ZZ | 3 | $245 | $82 |
| Wyoming | 2 | $27 | $13 |
| Guam | 1 | $25 | $25 |