Cytopathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $558,559 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 215
- Received a payment
- 213 (99.1%)
- Total reported
- $559K
- Average, those paid
- $2,622
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 2 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 cytopathology clinicians
Across 131 cytopathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $16,012,374 in total — an average of $122,232 each, of which $122,232 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyoming | 1 | $181,813 | $181,813 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | $163,711 | $10,232 |
| Texas | 24 | $55,602 | $2,317 |
| California | 26 | $32,270 | $1,241 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $31,038 | $15,519 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $24,392 | $12,196 |
| Florida | 17 | $21,827 | $1,284 |
| Illinois | 10 | $11,068 | $1,107 |
| Michigan | 5 | $6,701 | $1,340 |
| Maryland | 4 | $4,811 | $1,203 |
| Utah | 2 | $4,281 | $2,141 |
| New York | 13 | $4,102 | $316 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $2,517 | $1,258 |
| New Jersey | 11 | $2,445 | $222 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $1,766 | $883 |
| Louisiana | 9 | $1,497 | $166 |
| Georgia | 5 | $1,292 | $258 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $1,276 | $255 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | $1,273 | $127 |
| Delaware | 1 | $730 | $730 |
| Ohio | 9 | $692 | $77 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $599 | $299 |
| Missouri | 3 | $312 | $104 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | $306 | $102 |
| Virginia | 3 | $291 | $97 |
| Colorado | 3 | $274 | $91 |
| Oregon | 1 | $258 | $258 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $245 | $122 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $240 | $120 |
| Arizona | 1 | $169 | $169 |
| Kentucky | 4 | $133 | $33 |
| Washington | 2 | $123 | $61 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | $118 | $39 |
| Tennessee | 2 | $117 | $59 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $80 | $40 |
| Montana | 1 | $67 | $67 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $32 | $32 |
| Vermont | 1 | $25 | $25 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $25 | $25 |
| Idaho | 1 | $24 | $24 |
| Nevada | 1 | $17 | $17 |