Hepatology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $17,417,831 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 261
- Received a payment
- 256 (98.1%)
- Total reported
- $17.4M
- Average, those paid
- $68,038
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 5 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 hepatology clinicians
Across 188 hepatology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,610,865 in total — an average of $56,441 each, of which $54,912 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 | 36 | $4,310,267 | $119,730 |
| New York | 29 | $4,076,955 | $140,585 |
| Texas | 22 | $1,621,664 | $73,712 |
| Missouri | 6 | $966,002 | $161,000 |
| Georgia | 4 | $899,315 | $224,829 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | $779,815 | $59,986 |
| Louisiana | 9 | $655,293 | $72,810 |
| New Jersey | 5 | $568,895 | $113,779 |
| Arizona | 8 | $556,184 | $69,523 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | $535,231 | $133,808 |
| Illinois | 21 | $528,185 | $25,152 |
| Florida | 18 | $500,796 | $27,822 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $495,490 | $165,163 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $195,233 | $97,616 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | $158,188 | $19,774 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | $140,907 | $12,810 |
| Oregon | 3 | $83,551 | $27,850 |
| Connecticut | 4 | $79,829 | $19,957 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $60,677 | $60,677 |
| Maryland | 8 | $42,440 | $5,305 |
| Iowa | 6 | $30,753 | $5,126 |
| Ohio | 2 | $23,784 | $11,892 |
| Alabama | 2 | $23,527 | $11,764 |
| Washington | 4 | $20,730 | $5,182 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $13,273 | $13,273 |
| Colorado | 3 | $11,428 | $3,809 |
| Kentucky | 6 | $8,962 | $1,494 |
| Tennessee | 3 | $8,438 | $2,813 |
| South Dakota | 7 | $8,091 | $1,156 |
| North Carolina | 3 | $6,782 | $2,261 |
| Vermont | 1 | $5,583 | $5,583 |
| Kansas | 1 | $616 | $616 |
| Utah | 1 | $519 | $519 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $251 | $84 |
| Alaska | 1 | $132 | $132 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $34 | $34 |
| Virginia | 1 | $13 | $13 |