Geriatric Psychiatry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $2,842,330 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 455
- Received a payment
- 399 (87.7%)
- Total reported
- $2.8M
- Average, those paid
- $7,124
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 56 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 geriatric psychiatry clinicians
Across 289 geriatric psychiatry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $22,488,663 in total — an average of $77,815 each, of which $77,812 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 5 | $354,789 | $70,958 |
| Maryland | 10 | $319,497 | $31,950 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | $318,396 | $53,066 |
| California | 46 | $316,561 | $6,882 |
| Florida | 33 | $294,969 | $8,938 |
| Alabama | 4 | $284,740 | $71,185 |
| New York | 45 | $206,224 | $4,583 |
| Texas | 21 | $154,382 | $7,352 |
| Washington | 12 | $104,170 | $8,681 |
| Puerto Rico | 6 | $92,292 | $15,382 |
| Pennsylvania | 31 | $64,608 | $2,084 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | $61,663 | $2,681 |
| Hawaii | 6 | $35,259 | $5,877 |
| Virginia | 14 | $31,530 | $2,252 |
| Ohio | 16 | $29,409 | $1,838 |
| North Carolina | 12 | $21,759 | $1,813 |
| Nebraska | 3 | $21,401 | $7,134 |
| Minnesota | 8 | $16,380 | $2,048 |
| Indiana | 6 | $16,298 | $2,716 |
| New Jersey | 26 | $15,575 | $599 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $15,509 | $3,877 |
| Missouri | 11 | $13,100 | $1,191 |
| Nevada | 4 | $12,255 | $3,064 |
| Georgia | 9 | $9,704 | $1,078 |
| South Carolina | 10 | $4,945 | $494 |
| Michigan | 13 | $4,404 | $339 |
| Connecticut | 10 | $3,649 | $365 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | $3,541 | $354 |
| Kentucky | 3 | $2,659 | $886 |
| Arizona | 3 | $2,404 | $801 |
| Louisiana | 4 | $1,834 | $458 |
| Tennessee | 6 | $1,811 | $302 |
| Colorado | 2 | $1,602 | $801 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $1,302 | $651 |
| Illinois | 8 | $1,262 | $158 |
| Oregon | 5 | $693 | $139 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | $442 | $111 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $363 | $182 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $300 | $100 |
| Utah | 2 | $267 | $133 |
| Delaware | 1 | $109 | $109 |
| Vermont | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| Maine | 1 | $67 | $67 |
| Montana | 1 | $60 | $60 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $47 | $47 |
| Idaho | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $0 | $0 |