Gerontology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $12,691,830 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 6,522
- Received a payment
- 6,521 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $12.7M
- Average, those paid
- $1,946
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 gerontology clinicians
Across 3,874 gerontology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $272,844,978 in total — an average of $70,430 each, of which $53,825 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 714 | $1,621,073 | $2,270 |
| Pennsylvania | 383 | $1,244,071 | $3,248 |
| Texas | 653 | $1,180,374 | $1,808 |
| Massachusetts | 168 | $813,129 | $4,840 |
| Ohio | 361 | $679,595 | $1,883 |
| Tennessee | 194 | $667,694 | $3,442 |
| California | 348 | $639,917 | $1,839 |
| New Jersey | 374 | $606,868 | $1,623 |
| Georgia | 197 | $404,593 | $2,054 |
| Michigan | 279 | $398,530 | $1,428 |
| Indiana | 230 | $379,970 | $1,652 |
| Minnesota | 106 | $310,266 | $2,927 |
| Rhode Island | 39 | $301,169 | $7,722 |
| Alabama | 143 | $290,808 | $2,034 |
| South Carolina | 137 | $290,656 | $2,122 |
| Arizona | 99 | $250,165 | $2,527 |
| Washington | 105 | $212,267 | $2,022 |
| Wisconsin | 64 | $209,037 | $3,266 |
| Missouri | 175 | $193,550 | $1,106 |
| Illinois | 180 | $188,570 | $1,048 |
| Oklahoma | 73 | $177,709 | $2,434 |
| New York | 187 | $173,229 | $926 |
| North Carolina | 165 | $160,633 | $974 |
| Mississippi | 66 | $151,167 | $2,290 |
| Virginia | 130 | $148,377 | $1,141 |
| Maryland | 108 | $118,678 | $1,099 |
| Kentucky | 84 | $110,843 | $1,320 |
| Nevada | 72 | $104,463 | $1,451 |
| Louisiana | 64 | $103,503 | $1,617 |
| Arkansas | 89 | $85,637 | $962 |
| Colorado | 85 | $83,698 | $985 |
| Connecticut | 90 | $82,293 | $914 |
| Oregon | 53 | $78,880 | $1,488 |
| Utah | 26 | $44,127 | $1,697 |
| Kansas | 48 | $39,972 | $833 |
| District of Columbia | 14 | $19,096 | $1,364 |
| Nebraska | 21 | $17,323 | $825 |
| Iowa | 28 | $15,323 | $547 |
| Idaho | 23 | $13,210 | $574 |
| West Virginia | 18 | $10,851 | $603 |
| Hawaii | 19 | $10,727 | $565 |
| New Mexico | 20 | $10,271 | $514 |
| Montana | 17 | $10,195 | $600 |
| Delaware | 17 | $9,926 | $584 |
| North Dakota | 10 | $8,258 | $826 |
| New Hampshire | 16 | $5,436 | $340 |
| Alaska | 7 | $5,435 | $776 |
| Vermont | 4 | $3,333 | $833 |
| Maine | 10 | $2,923 | $292 |
| South Dakota | 5 | $2,563 | $513 |
| Wyoming | 2 | $950 | $475 |
| Guam | 1 | $438 | $438 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $63 | $63 |