Assistant, Podiatric: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $8,122 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 3
- Received a payment
- 3 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $8K
- Average, those paid
- $2,707
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 assistant, podiatric clinicians
Across 2 assistant, podiatric clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,681,642 in total — an average of $840,821 each, of which $840,821 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 1 | $4,283 | $4,283 |
| California | 1 | $3,385 | $3,385 |
| Michigan | 1 | $455 | $455 |