Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $345,041,070 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 3,425
- Received a payment
- 3,399 (99.2%)
- Total reported
- $345M
- Average, those paid
- $101,513
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 26 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 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians
Across 2,942 clinical cardiac electrophysiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $861,470,666 in total — an average of $292,818 each, of which $292,429 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 68 | $132,146,595 | $1,943,332 |
| New York | 214 | $31,451,675 | $146,970 |
| California | 290 | $24,462,107 | $84,352 |
| Texas | 233 | $18,278,109 | $78,447 |
| Florida | 249 | $16,009,029 | $64,293 |
| Pennsylvania | 201 | $15,671,318 | $77,967 |
| Illinois | 158 | $10,478,084 | $66,317 |
| Massachusetts | 106 | $9,314,683 | $87,874 |
| Ohio | 159 | $6,881,541 | $43,280 |
| Michigan | 105 | $4,853,617 | $46,225 |
| Georgia | 93 | $4,333,143 | $46,593 |
| New Jersey | 102 | $4,223,825 | $41,410 |
| Indiana | 72 | $4,126,563 | $57,313 |
| North Carolina | 98 | $3,969,428 | $40,504 |
| South Carolina | 58 | $3,898,392 | $67,214 |
| Arizona | 80 | $3,897,447 | $48,718 |
| Virginia | 90 | $3,712,903 | $41,254 |
| Iowa | 42 | $3,477,526 | $82,798 |
| Oklahoma | 30 | $3,371,067 | $112,369 |
| Colorado | 66 | $3,228,786 | $48,921 |
| Tennessee | 82 | $3,189,308 | $38,894 |
| Wisconsin | 78 | $2,727,206 | $34,964 |
| Kansas | 37 | $2,724,239 | $73,628 |
| Kentucky | 57 | $2,685,026 | $47,106 |
| Minnesota | 72 | $2,627,161 | $36,488 |
| Arkansas | 25 | $2,561,838 | $102,474 |
| Alabama | 42 | $2,532,203 | $60,291 |
| Missouri | 74 | $2,302,048 | $31,109 |
| Maryland | 63 | $2,030,934 | $32,237 |
| Utah | 29 | $1,973,745 | $68,060 |
| Louisiana | 43 | $1,665,542 | $38,734 |
| Connecticut | 47 | $1,486,424 | $31,626 |
| Nebraska | 21 | $1,161,692 | $55,319 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | $1,103,157 | $84,858 |
| Puerto Rico | 22 | $1,067,123 | $48,506 |
| Oregon | 37 | $948,785 | $25,643 |
| Idaho | 14 | $675,397 | $48,243 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | $662,753 | $60,250 |
| New Mexico | 14 | $660,258 | $47,161 |
| West Virginia | 18 | $582,986 | $32,388 |
| Montana | 15 | $422,840 | $28,189 |
| Nevada | 20 | $385,963 | $19,298 |
| Mississippi | 13 | $309,824 | $23,833 |
| North Dakota | 7 | $173,544 | $24,792 |
| Maine | 18 | $146,142 | $8,119 |
| Vermont | 6 | $134,066 | $22,344 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | $111,100 | $8,546 |
| Delaware | 5 | $65,710 | $13,142 |
| Alaska | 4 | $64,142 | $16,036 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $52,893 | $13,223 |
| South Dakota | 6 | $17,472 | $2,912 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $3,712 | $3,712 |