Glaucoma Specialist: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $12,542,024 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 435
- Received a payment
- 435 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $12.5M
- Average, those paid
- $28,832
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 glaucoma specialist clinicians
Across 377 glaucoma specialist clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $100,301,095 in total — an average of $266,051 each, of which $259,943 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 | 64 | $3,038,350 | $47,474 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | $1,766,785 | $252,398 |
| Colorado | 19 | $1,445,128 | $76,059 |
| Florida | 31 | $1,162,844 | $37,511 |
| Missouri | 12 | $1,006,001 | $83,833 |
| Georgia | 13 | $736,557 | $56,658 |
| Indiana | 3 | $571,442 | $190,481 |
| New York | 35 | $361,411 | $10,326 |
| Arizona | 17 | $354,792 | $20,870 |
| Texas | 31 | $308,501 | $9,952 |
| Ohio | 9 | $228,366 | $25,374 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | $211,460 | $16,266 |
| Illinois | 13 | $179,689 | $13,822 |
| New Jersey | 12 | $153,609 | $12,801 |
| Michigan | 9 | $142,263 | $15,807 |
| Oregon | 19 | $114,359 | $6,019 |
| Nevada | 2 | $95,868 | $47,934 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | $87,007 | $5,800 |
| Kansas | 6 | $77,762 | $12,960 |
| Tennessee | 5 | $74,807 | $14,961 |
| Louisiana | 4 | $62,348 | $15,587 |
| Maryland | 16 | $46,843 | $2,928 |
| North Carolina | 8 | $35,596 | $4,450 |
| Hawaii | 5 | $30,947 | $6,189 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $28,416 | $14,208 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 | $25,703 | $5,141 |
| Alabama | 3 | $23,420 | $7,807 |
| Virginia | 8 | $22,025 | $2,753 |
| South Carolina | 3 | $18,606 | $6,202 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $17,045 | $8,523 |
| Washington | 5 | $16,726 | $3,345 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $13,923 | $2,785 |
| Maine | 3 | $11,371 | $3,790 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $10,229 | $5,115 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $9,168 | $4,584 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $7,968 | $3,984 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $7,039 | $2,346 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | $6,588 | $941 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $5,722 | $5,722 |
| Idaho | 2 | $5,438 | $2,719 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $4,885 | $4,885 |
| Utah | 2 | $4,813 | $2,406 |
| Montana | 2 | $3,702 | $1,851 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $2,379 | $1,190 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $1,840 | $1,840 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $1,608 | $804 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $675 | $338 |