Diagnostic Neuroimaging: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,018,689 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 79
- Received a payment
- 79 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $1M
- Average, those paid
- $12,895
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 diagnostic neuroimaging clinicians
Across 65 diagnostic neuroimaging clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $13,530,510 in total — an average of $208,162 each, of which $207,211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 26 | $667,853 | $25,687 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $92,552 | $92,552 |
| Florida | 9 | $87,198 | $9,689 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $75,999 | $19,000 |
| Illinois | 7 | $53,711 | $7,673 |
| North Carolina | 3 | $12,990 | $4,330 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | $12,159 | $12,159 |
| Missouri | 2 | $4,866 | $2,433 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $3,831 | $3,831 |
| New York | 7 | $2,712 | $387 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $1,497 | $1,497 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | $1,024 | $341 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $924 | $462 |
| Kansas | 1 | $303 | $303 |
| Ohio | 2 | $249 | $125 |
| Maryland | 1 | $248 | $248 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $180 | $180 |
| Texas | 1 | $149 | $149 |
| Virginia | 1 | $127 | $127 |
| Arizona | 3 | $77 | $26 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $20 | $20 |
| Georgia | 1 | $19 | $19 |