Foot Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $9,593,492 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,238
- Received a payment
- 1,238 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $9.6M
- Average, those paid
- $7,749
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 foot surgery clinicians
Across 912 foot surgery clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $146,206,113 in total — an average of $160,314 each, of which $145,713 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 21 | $3,709,812 | $176,658 |
| New York | 294 | $988,451 | $3,362 |
| Florida | 107 | $696,077 | $6,505 |
| Texas | 71 | $659,340 | $9,286 |
| Massachusetts | 41 | $445,092 | $10,856 |
| Maryland | 28 | $339,919 | $12,140 |
| Virginia | 34 | $328,813 | $9,671 |
| Alabama | 35 | $298,239 | $8,521 |
| New Jersey | 59 | $292,984 | $4,966 |
| California | 71 | $289,803 | $4,082 |
| Tennessee | 23 | $264,728 | $11,510 |
| Kansas | 9 | $220,602 | $24,511 |
| South Carolina | 28 | $131,172 | $4,685 |
| Arizona | 10 | $129,634 | $12,963 |
| Illinois | 51 | $104,625 | $2,051 |
| Pennsylvania | 67 | $85,436 | $1,275 |
| Michigan | 22 | $63,260 | $2,875 |
| Ohio | 28 | $53,334 | $1,905 |
| Utah | 8 | $51,365 | $6,421 |
| Louisiana | 18 | $49,829 | $2,768 |
| Colorado | 11 | $40,075 | $3,643 |
| North Carolina | 13 | $36,292 | $2,792 |
| Washington | 14 | $29,345 | $2,096 |
| Minnesota | 11 | $29,261 | $2,660 |
| Connecticut | 20 | $25,323 | $1,266 |
| Hawaii | 6 | $24,790 | $4,132 |
| Mississippi | 14 | $24,551 | $1,754 |
| Indiana | 17 | $21,866 | $1,286 |
| South Dakota | 4 | $21,200 | $5,300 |
| Oregon | 14 | $20,250 | $1,446 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | $17,291 | $2,470 |
| Georgia | 14 | $16,511 | $1,179 |
| Puerto Rico | 13 | $15,934 | $1,226 |
| Maine | 7 | $10,326 | $1,475 |
| Arkansas | 5 | $8,811 | $1,762 |
| Alaska | 1 | $8,280 | $8,280 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $7,265 | $2,422 |
| Iowa | 5 | $7,008 | $1,402 |
| New Mexico | 5 | $5,691 | $1,138 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $5,197 | $866 |
| Montana | 3 | $3,512 | $1,171 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | $3,509 | $1,170 |
| Kentucky | 4 | $2,608 | $652 |
| Nebraska | 3 | $1,580 | $527 |
| AE | 2 | $1,567 | $784 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $1,166 | $583 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $933 | $311 |
| Wyoming | 2 | $718 | $359 |
| Nevada | 1 | $118 | $118 |