Chiropractor: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3,885,150 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 6,862
- Received a payment
- 6,844 (99.7%)
- Total reported
- $3.9M
- Average, those paid
- $568
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 18 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 chiropractor clinicians
Across 2,611 chiropractor clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $49,762,884 in total — an average of $19,059 each, of which $19,059 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 | 198 | $1,027,568 | $5,190 |
| New Jersey | 337 | $877,106 | $2,603 |
| New York | 543 | $417,153 | $768 |
| Florida | 633 | $212,884 | $336 |
| California | 753 | $212,368 | $282 |
| Michigan | 135 | $184,336 | $1,365 |
| Texas | 702 | $182,549 | $260 |
| Illinois | 328 | $105,030 | $320 |
| Pennsylvania | 277 | $77,581 | $280 |
| Colorado | 173 | $41,548 | $240 |
| South Carolina | 99 | $39,579 | $400 |
| Ohio | 263 | $34,233 | $130 |
| Utah | 79 | $31,738 | $402 |
| Georgia | 233 | $31,728 | $136 |
| Missouri | 182 | $31,402 | $173 |
| Minnesota | 135 | $28,928 | $214 |
| Kansas | 67 | $26,016 | $388 |
| Virginia | 103 | $25,539 | $248 |
| North Carolina | 139 | $23,065 | $166 |
| Indiana | 118 | $21,724 | $184 |
| Wisconsin | 71 | $19,775 | $279 |
| Nebraska | 42 | $19,601 | $467 |
| Iowa | 51 | $18,127 | $355 |
| Oklahoma | 59 | $16,494 | $280 |
| Kentucky | 77 | $16,258 | $211 |
| Oregon | 114 | $14,495 | $127 |
| Tennessee | 102 | $14,388 | $141 |
| Maryland | 71 | $13,860 | $195 |
| Washington | 131 | $13,609 | $104 |
| Wyoming | 11 | $11,589 | $1,054 |
| Arkansas | 38 | $10,796 | $284 |
| Connecticut | 73 | $10,719 | $147 |
| Massachusetts | 61 | $8,894 | $146 |
| North Dakota | 19 | $8,775 | $462 |
| Louisiana | 72 | $8,458 | $117 |
| Nevada | 43 | $7,105 | $165 |
| Alabama | 60 | $5,973 | $100 |
| Hawaii | 16 | $5,797 | $362 |
| Idaho | 54 | $4,747 | $88 |
| Delaware | 27 | $4,662 | $173 |
| New Mexico | 25 | $3,097 | $124 |
| Vermont | 5 | $2,449 | $490 |
| Rhode Island | 10 | $2,148 | $215 |
| Puerto Rico | 21 | $2,056 | $98 |
| Mississippi | 20 | $1,869 | $93 |
| West Virginia | 21 | $1,717 | $82 |
| Alaska | 14 | $1,630 | $116 |
| Maine | 20 | $1,223 | $61 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | $1,115 | $101 |
| South Dakota | 11 | $801 | $73 |
| Montana | 10 | $391 | $39 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $247 | $124 |
| AE | 1 | $61 | $61 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $18 | $18 |