Emergency: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $84,267 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 120
- Received a payment
- 120 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $84K
- Average, those paid
- $702
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 emergency clinicians
Across 26 emergency clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $489,541 in total — an average of $18,828 each, of which $18,819 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 4 | $32,798 | $8,199 |
| Texas | 3 | $28,948 | $9,649 |
| California | 30 | $9,059 | $302 |
| Florida | 10 | $3,356 | $336 |
| Alabama | 4 | $2,035 | $509 |
| Mississippi | 1 | $1,341 | $1,341 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | $999 | $167 |
| Michigan | 8 | $975 | $122 |
| Tennessee | 6 | $844 | $141 |
| Ohio | 6 | $530 | $88 |
| Virginia | 3 | $370 | $123 |
| New York | 4 | $350 | $87 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $348 | $174 |
| Arizona | 4 | $337 | $84 |
| Maryland | 3 | $264 | $88 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $263 | $263 |
| Illinois | 2 | $247 | $124 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $205 | $205 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $179 | $89 |
| Washington | 3 | $130 | $43 |
| Kansas | 1 | $122 | $122 |
| Delaware | 2 | $114 | $57 |
| Indiana | 1 | $97 | $97 |
| Alaska | 1 | $80 | $80 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $49 | $49 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $39 | $39 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $32 | $16 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $30 | $30 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $22 | $22 |
| Nevada | 1 | $19 | $19 |
| Georgia | 1 | $19 | $19 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $18 | $18 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $17 | $17 |
| AE | 1 | $17 | $17 |
| Colorado | 1 | $14 | $14 |