Forensic Psychiatry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $431,071 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 230
- Received a payment
- 227 (98.7%)
- Total reported
- $431K
- Average, those paid
- $1,899
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 forensic psychiatry clinicians
Across 49 forensic psychiatry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,931,011 in total — an average of $59,817 each, of which $59,817 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 | 43 | $189,358 | $4,404 |
| Texas | 11 | $37,290 | $3,390 |
| Florida | 12 | $32,134 | $2,678 |
| Virginia | 6 | $23,199 | $3,867 |
| Georgia | 8 | $20,258 | $2,532 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | $20,187 | $6,729 |
| New York | 27 | $18,700 | $693 |
| New Jersey | 10 | $10,701 | $1,070 |
| Maryland | 6 | $8,998 | $1,500 |
| Alabama | 1 | $8,436 | $8,436 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | $7,780 | $1,556 |
| Tennessee | 2 | $7,480 | $3,740 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 | $4,473 | $895 |
| Indiana | 2 | $3,747 | $1,873 |
| South Carolina | 7 | $3,741 | $534 |
| Nevada | 5 | $3,700 | $740 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $3,491 | $1,745 |
| Louisiana | 8 | $3,042 | $380 |
| North Carolina | 5 | $2,967 | $593 |
| Oregon | 3 | $2,667 | $889 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | $2,489 | $622 |
| Michigan | 6 | $2,411 | $402 |
| Connecticut | 6 | $2,313 | $386 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $1,736 | $579 |
| Illinois | 4 | $1,410 | $353 |
| Delaware | 2 | $1,359 | $679 |
| Arizona | 3 | $1,294 | $431 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $963 | $963 |
| Kansas | 1 | $855 | $855 |
| Ohio | 4 | $654 | $163 |
| Colorado | 4 | $639 | $160 |
| Iowa | 1 | $526 | $526 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $422 | $141 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $319 | $319 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $281 | $141 |
| Utah | 3 | $262 | $87 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $250 | $250 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $145 | $73 |
| Missouri | 2 | $111 | $55 |
| Idaho | 1 | $110 | $110 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $89 | $45 |
| Washington | 1 | $35 | $35 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $33 | $33 |
| AP | 1 | $15 | $15 |