Community Health/Public Health: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $20,732 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 28
- Received a payment
- 28 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $21K
- Average, those paid
- $740
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 community health/public health clinicians
Across 2 community health/public health clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $43,424 in total — an average of $21,712 each, of which $21,712 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 1 | $5,980 | $5,980 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $5,150 | $5,150 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $2,837 | $1,419 |
| New York | 2 | $2,595 | $1,297 |
| Ohio | 3 | $1,213 | $404 |
| Texas | 1 | $778 | $778 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $549 | $549 |
| Colorado | 1 | $496 | $496 |
| California | 4 | $241 | $60 |
| Illinois | 5 | $229 | $46 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $185 | $185 |
| Washington | 1 | $169 | $169 |
| Kansas | 1 | $127 | $127 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $81 | $81 |
| Georgia | 1 | $42 | $42 |
| Virginia | 1 | $29 | $29 |
| Oregon | 1 | $28 | $28 |