Diagnostic Ultrasound: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $135,494 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 92
- Received a payment
- 91 (98.9%)
- Total reported
- $135K
- Average, those paid
- $1,489
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 ultrasound clinicians
Across 48 diagnostic ultrasound clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $7,918,566 in total — an average of $164,970 each, of which $164,233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 4 | $90,341 | $22,585 |
| North Carolina | 4 | $14,757 | $3,689 |
| Virginia | 2 | $8,362 | $4,181 |
| Illinois | 7 | $3,733 | $533 |
| California | 13 | $3,411 | $262 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | $2,398 | $400 |
| Kansas | 1 | $2,263 | $2,263 |
| Arizona | 1 | $2,201 | $2,201 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | $2,174 | $725 |
| New York | 8 | $1,051 | $131 |
| Florida | 8 | $669 | $84 |
| Georgia | 1 | $666 | $666 |
| Indiana | 1 | $603 | $603 |
| Texas | 4 | $507 | $127 |
| Connecticut | 4 | $466 | $116 |
| Michigan | 3 | $378 | $126 |
| Tennessee | 4 | $268 | $67 |
| Ohio | 2 | $261 | $131 |
| Washington | 2 | $210 | $105 |
| Maryland | 1 | $191 | $191 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $157 | $52 |
| Missouri | 1 | $116 | $116 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $108 | $108 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $65 | $65 |
| Nevada | 1 | $35 | $35 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $32 | $16 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $23 | $23 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $19 | $19 |
| Alabama | 1 | $15 | $15 |