Hypertension Specialist: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $2,687,466 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 19
- Received a payment
- 19 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $2.7M
- Average, those paid
- $141,446
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 hypertension specialist clinicians
Across 12 hypertension specialist clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,104,447 in total — an average of $92,037 each, of which $91,699 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 2 | $2,138,184 | $1,069,092 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $258,572 | $258,572 |
| Illinois | 2 | $158,030 | $79,015 |
| Mississippi | 4 | $48,516 | $12,129 |
| Tennessee | 3 | $38,593 | $12,864 |
| Michigan | 1 | $32,354 | $32,354 |
| Florida | 2 | $10,456 | $5,228 |
| Maryland | 1 | $1,503 | $1,503 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $1,017 | $1,017 |
| Ohio | 1 | $184 | $184 |
| New York | 1 | $57 | $57 |