Body Imaging: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $21,695,946 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 359
- Received a payment
- 350 (97.5%)
- Total reported
- $21.7M
- Average, those paid
- $61,988
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 9 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 body imaging clinicians
Across 263 body imaging clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $41,854,526 in total — an average of $159,143 each, of which $157,235 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 15 | $16,300,237 | $1,086,682 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | $3,179,242 | $244,557 |
| California | 101 | $1,054,259 | $10,438 |
| New York | 20 | $415,836 | $20,792 |
| Louisiana | 12 | $288,053 | $24,004 |
| Minnesota | 3 | $186,335 | $62,112 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | $89,422 | $7,452 |
| Florida | 14 | $66,342 | $4,739 |
| Illinois | 10 | $27,505 | $2,750 |
| North Carolina | 15 | $16,283 | $1,086 |
| Iowa | 11 | $12,914 | $1,174 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | $6,811 | $1,362 |
| Maryland | 9 | $6,157 | $684 |
| Missouri | 6 | $5,042 | $840 |
| Ohio | 8 | $4,758 | $595 |
| Utah | 3 | $4,729 | $1,576 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $4,570 | $4,570 |
| South Carolina | 9 | $3,561 | $396 |
| Texas | 18 | $3,127 | $174 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $3,095 | $1,547 |
| Georgia | 3 | $2,688 | $896 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $2,409 | $1,205 |
| Arizona | 8 | $2,392 | $299 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $2,161 | $2,161 |
| Washington | 8 | $1,972 | $246 |
| New Jersey | 8 | $1,401 | $175 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 | $956 | $191 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $586 | $293 |
| Montana | 1 | $531 | $531 |
| Alaska | 4 | $489 | $122 |
| Michigan | 5 | $409 | $82 |
| Virginia | 4 | $386 | $97 |
| Tennessee | 5 | $361 | $72 |
| Mississippi | 1 | $224 | $224 |
| Alabama | 3 | $175 | $58 |
| AP | 1 | $120 | $120 |
| Maine | 1 | $74 | $74 |
| Indiana | 1 | $72 | $72 |
| Kansas | 1 | $66 | $66 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $66 | $22 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $60 | $60 |
| Vermont | 1 | $37 | $37 |
| Oregon | 2 | $18 | $9 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $16 | $16 |