Home Health: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $49,522 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 94
- Received a payment
- 94 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $50K
- Average, those paid
- $527
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 home health clinicians
Across 4 home health clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $19,220 in total — an average of $4,805 each, of which $4,805 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 | 11 | $17,633 | $1,603 |
| Ohio | 12 | $13,988 | $1,166 |
| New York | 25 | $8,008 | $320 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $4,819 | $2,409 |
| Florida | 2 | $1,298 | $649 |
| South Carolina | 2 | $902 | $451 |
| Michigan | 4 | $613 | $153 |
| Texas | 8 | $410 | $51 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $393 | $196 |
| Virginia | 1 | $284 | $284 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $220 | $220 |
| Wisconsin | 4 | $196 | $49 |
| Illinois | 4 | $142 | $35 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $130 | $65 |
| Colorado | 1 | $124 | $124 |
| Washington | 4 | $123 | $31 |
| Georgia | 1 | $58 | $58 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $42 | $21 |
| Arizona | 2 | $39 | $20 |
| Missouri | 1 | $28 | $28 |
| Indiana | 1 | $27 | $27 |
| Nevada | 1 | $26 | $26 |
| Idaho | 1 | $17 | $17 |