Dental Anesthesiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $651,533 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 177
- Received a payment
- 177 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $652K
- Average, those paid
- $3,681
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 dental anesthesiology clinicians
Across 2 dental anesthesiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $28,204 in total — an average of $14,102 each, of which $14,102 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 17 | $388,752 | $22,868 |
| Arizona | 15 | $121,078 | $8,072 |
| New York | 18 | $47,284 | $2,627 |
| California | 41 | $36,911 | $900 |
| Massachusetts | 3 | $31,490 | $10,497 |
| Washington | 3 | $7,468 | $2,489 |
| Missouri | 2 | $4,490 | $2,245 |
| Ohio | 11 | $3,999 | $364 |
| Virginia | 9 | $3,005 | $334 |
| Texas | 22 | $2,728 | $124 |
| Illinois | 5 | $1,225 | $245 |
| Colorado | 6 | $716 | $119 |
| Montana | 1 | $342 | $342 |
| Alaska | 1 | $306 | $306 |
| Maryland | 2 | $295 | $147 |
| South Carolina | 2 | $244 | $122 |
| Idaho | 1 | $218 | $218 |
| Connecticut | 4 | $196 | $49 |
| Florida | 2 | $187 | $94 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $145 | $145 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $115 | $57 |
| Alabama | 1 | $113 | $113 |
| Nevada | 2 | $84 | $42 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $57 | $28 |
| Tennessee | 2 | $33 | $17 |
| Utah | 1 | $31 | $31 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $22 | $22 |