Clinical Pathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $9,584,157 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 222
- Received a payment
- 217 (97.7%)
- Total reported
- $9.6M
- Average, those paid
- $44,167
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 5 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 pathology clinicians
Across 118 clinical pathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $32,101,767 in total — an average of $272,049 each, of which $272,049 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 16 | $4,262,302 | $266,394 |
| Illinois | 6 | $1,548,338 | $258,056 |
| Michigan | 10 | $762,211 | $76,221 |
| California | 20 | $714,249 | $35,712 |
| Minnesota | 7 | $446,778 | $63,825 |
| Alabama | 4 | $441,671 | $110,418 |
| Arizona | 3 | $314,444 | $104,815 |
| Florida | 13 | $299,801 | $23,062 |
| Maryland | 7 | $149,210 | $21,316 |
| Missouri | 14 | $104,066 | $7,433 |
| Ohio | 7 | $93,065 | $13,295 |
| Louisiana | 5 | $77,898 | $15,580 |
| Utah | 5 | $70,233 | $14,047 |
| Georgia | 6 | $67,068 | $11,178 |
| Wisconsin | 4 | $52,258 | $13,064 |
| Tennessee | 3 | $43,941 | $14,647 |
| Virginia | 9 | $35,289 | $3,921 |
| Texas | 20 | $30,396 | $1,520 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | $15,601 | $1,040 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | $14,768 | $1,477 |
| New Jersey | 5 | $14,428 | $2,886 |
| North Dakota | 3 | $14,059 | $4,686 |
| Colorado | 5 | $4,909 | $982 |
| Iowa | 3 | $3,965 | $1,322 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $836 | $279 |
| Nevada | 2 | $389 | $195 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $333 | $333 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $312 | $156 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $286 | $95 |
| Washington | 3 | $239 | $80 |
| Delaware | 1 | $214 | $214 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $199 | $199 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $193 | $96 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $169 | $84 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $39 | $20 |