Hand Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $71,171,949 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 2,594
- Received a payment
- 2,547 (98.2%)
- Total reported
- $71.2M
- Average, those paid
- $27,943
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 47 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 hand surgery clinicians
Across 2,133 hand surgery clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $365,715,550 in total — an average of $171,456 each, of which $157,424 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 | 173 | $15,556,819 | $89,924 |
| California | 249 | $12,254,644 | $49,215 |
| New Jersey | 87 | $5,804,658 | $66,720 |
| Pennsylvania | 110 | $3,796,815 | $34,517 |
| Massachusetts | 68 | $3,625,669 | $53,319 |
| Texas | 170 | $3,396,224 | $19,978 |
| Illinois | 121 | $3,203,655 | $26,476 |
| New York | 178 | $2,293,278 | $12,884 |
| Arizona | 60 | $2,207,903 | $36,798 |
| North Carolina | 79 | $2,166,747 | $27,427 |
| Mississippi | 9 | $1,843,039 | $204,782 |
| Ohio | 88 | $1,821,046 | $20,694 |
| Washington | 75 | $1,562,432 | $20,832 |
| Connecticut | 54 | $1,561,555 | $28,918 |
| Colorado | 72 | $1,393,475 | $19,354 |
| Tennessee | 60 | $1,117,549 | $18,626 |
| Georgia | 77 | $880,907 | $11,440 |
| Indiana | 60 | $769,373 | $12,823 |
| Virginia | 81 | $742,957 | $9,172 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | $624,722 | $52,060 |
| Kentucky | 56 | $405,728 | $7,245 |
| Michigan | 55 | $370,724 | $6,740 |
| South Carolina | 47 | $358,004 | $7,617 |
| Oregon | 28 | $314,548 | $11,234 |
| Louisiana | 29 | $295,893 | $10,203 |
| Alabama | 29 | $292,075 | $10,072 |
| Missouri | 36 | $269,969 | $7,499 |
| Nevada | 24 | $251,773 | $10,491 |
| Iowa | 24 | $222,761 | $9,282 |
| Montana | 16 | $221,008 | $13,813 |
| Maryland | 54 | $206,288 | $3,820 |
| Oklahoma | 26 | $191,697 | $7,373 |
| Wisconsin | 43 | $164,479 | $3,825 |
| Minnesota | 38 | $156,945 | $4,130 |
| Kansas | 23 | $125,692 | $5,465 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | $123,069 | $20,511 |
| Arkansas | 18 | $67,703 | $3,761 |
| New Mexico | 12 | $63,704 | $5,309 |
| Nebraska | 21 | $61,494 | $2,928 |
| New Hampshire | 15 | $52,065 | $3,471 |
| South Dakota | 14 | $43,610 | $3,115 |
| Utah | 22 | $41,044 | $1,866 |
| Vermont | 3 | $37,857 | $12,619 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $27,416 | $6,854 |
| Alaska | 9 | $26,990 | $2,999 |
| Idaho | 13 | $26,368 | $2,028 |
| West Virginia | 7 | $26,019 | $3,717 |
| Maine | 14 | $21,561 | $1,540 |
| Wyoming | 3 | $20,085 | $6,695 |
| AE | 2 | $19,615 | $9,808 |
| Hawaii | 10 | $15,335 | $1,534 |
| Delaware | 4 | $13,594 | $3,399 |
| North Dakota | 5 | $13,366 | $2,673 |
| Guam | 1 | $0 | $0 |