Integrative Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $417,581 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 48
- Received a payment
- 47 (97.9%)
- Total reported
- $418K
- Average, those paid
- $8,885
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 integrative medicine clinicians
Across 11 integrative medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $598,180 in total — an average of $54,380 each, of which $53,185 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| District of Columbia | 1 | $350,018 | $350,018 |
| Ohio | 2 | $32,118 | $16,059 |
| Florida | 5 | $14,156 | $2,831 |
| California | 10 | $5,591 | $559 |
| Indiana | 3 | $4,582 | $1,527 |
| Texas | 1 | $4,049 | $4,049 |
| Michigan | 2 | $2,020 | $1,010 |
| Colorado | 2 | $1,162 | $581 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $888 | $444 |
| Utah | 1 | $648 | $648 |
| Iowa | 1 | $511 | $511 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $331 | $166 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $318 | $318 |
| Arizona | 2 | $278 | $139 |
| Montana | 1 | $242 | $242 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $229 | $76 |
| Missouri | 1 | $134 | $134 |
| New York | 2 | $86 | $43 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $64 | $64 |
| Oregon | 1 | $43 | $43 |
| Nevada | 1 | $36 | $36 |
| Georgia | 1 | $36 | $36 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $22 | $22 |
| Illinois | 1 | $19 | $19 |