Infusion Therapy: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3,768 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 20
- Received a payment
- 20 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $4K
- Average, those paid
- $188
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 infusion therapy clinicians
Across 2 infusion therapy clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $12,910 in total — an average of $6,455 each, of which $6,455 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 1 | $1,372 | $1,372 |
| Florida | 2 | $896 | $448 |
| California | 3 | $604 | $201 |
| Missouri | 1 | $270 | $270 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $144 | $144 |
| Washington | 1 | $116 | $116 |
| Maryland | 1 | $83 | $83 |
| New York | 2 | $64 | $32 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $62 | $62 |
| Ohio | 1 | $47 | $47 |
| Alaska | 1 | $32 | $32 |
| Georgia | 1 | $19 | $19 |
| Texas | 1 | $16 | $16 |
| Indiana | 1 | $15 | $15 |
| Nevada | 1 | $14 | $14 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $13 | $13 |