Dermatopathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $4,521,317 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 611
- Received a payment
- 608 (99.5%)
- Total reported
- $4.5M
- Average, those paid
- $7,436
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 dermatopathology clinicians
Across 443 dermatopathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $188,106,826 in total — an average of $424,620 each, of which $414,920 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | $959,036 | $17,760 |
| Connecticut | 7 | $551,358 | $78,765 |
| New York | 44 | $297,747 | $6,767 |
| California | 76 | $291,074 | $3,830 |
| Maryland | 17 | $232,297 | $13,665 |
| Alabama | 19 | $229,829 | $12,096 |
| Ohio | 25 | $213,680 | $8,547 |
| Puerto Rico | 7 | $210,633 | $30,090 |
| Illinois | 13 | $183,548 | $14,119 |
| Nevada | 6 | $180,652 | $30,109 |
| North Carolina | 13 | $169,853 | $13,066 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $135,700 | $45,233 |
| Indiana | 7 | $108,669 | $15,524 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | $106,556 | $3,947 |
| Georgia | 25 | $102,704 | $4,108 |
| Michigan | 28 | $90,521 | $3,233 |
| Florida | 62 | $81,235 | $1,310 |
| Arizona | 17 | $61,532 | $3,620 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | $58,190 | $4,849 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $50,126 | $2,506 |
| South Carolina | 11 | $39,517 | $3,592 |
| Kansas | 3 | $22,683 | $7,561 |
| Missouri | 9 | $21,909 | $2,434 |
| Kentucky | 9 | $21,824 | $2,425 |
| Colorado | 12 | $19,697 | $1,641 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $16,274 | $4,069 |
| Minnesota | 8 | $12,693 | $1,587 |
| Iowa | 2 | $9,184 | $4,592 |
| Washington | 7 | $7,344 | $1,049 |
| Louisiana | 9 | $6,782 | $754 |
| Utah | 2 | $6,699 | $3,349 |
| New Jersey | 8 | $4,647 | $581 |
| Virginia | 7 | $4,235 | $605 |
| Vermont | 1 | $1,966 | $1,966 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $1,956 | $652 |
| Idaho | 2 | $1,821 | $911 |
| Oregon | 7 | $1,421 | $203 |
| North Dakota | 2 | $1,407 | $704 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $987 | $247 |
| Delaware | 1 | $895 | $895 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $802 | $267 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $540 | $90 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $326 | $326 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $226 | $75 |
| Montana | 2 | $207 | $103 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $193 | $193 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | $128 | $128 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $14 | $14 |