Clinical Pharmacology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,072,964 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 36
- Received a payment
- 27 (75.0%)
- Total reported
- $1.1M
- Average, those paid
- $39,739
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 clinical pharmacology clinicians
Across 2 clinical pharmacology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $21,096 in total — an average of $10,548 each, of which $10,548 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 1 | $493,190 | $493,190 |
| California | 4 | $294,586 | $73,647 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $196,779 | $98,389 |
| Maryland | 2 | $46,141 | $23,071 |
| Missouri | 2 | $12,963 | $6,481 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $9,551 | $9,551 |
| Washington | 1 | $7,982 | $7,982 |
| Ohio | 1 | $5,674 | $5,674 |
| Texas | 2 | $3,898 | $1,949 |
| Delaware | 1 | $744 | $744 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $427 | $214 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | $247 | $82 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $189 | $94 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $181 | $181 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $125 | $125 |
| Nevada | 1 | $119 | $119 |
| New York | 1 | $59 | $59 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $36 | $36 |
| Colorado | 1 | $32 | $32 |
| Idaho | 1 | $22 | $22 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $21 | $21 |
| Florida | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Arizona | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $0 | $0 |