Chemical Pathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $56,859 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 11
- Received a payment
- 11 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $57K
- Average, those paid
- $5,169
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 chemical pathology clinicians
Across 4 chemical pathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $120,920 in total — an average of $30,230 each, of which $30,230 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1 | $51,705 | $51,705 |
| Massachusetts | 2 | $2,641 | $1,320 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $1,678 | $1,678 |
| California | 1 | $241 | $241 |
| Illinois | 1 | $232 | $232 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $189 | $189 |
| Michigan | 1 | $77 | $77 |
| Missouri | 1 | $41 | $41 |
| New York | 1 | $37 | $37 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $19 | $19 |