Internist: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $4,061 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 34
- Received a payment
- 34 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $4K
- Average, those paid
- $119
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 internist clinicians
Across 8 internist clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $146,488 in total — an average of $18,311 each, of which $18,311 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3 | $1,221 | $407 |
| Illinois | 8 | $935 | $117 |
| Florida | 4 | $476 | $119 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $260 | $260 |
| California | 2 | $251 | $126 |
| Texas | 3 | $236 | $79 |
| Kansas | 2 | $221 | $110 |
| Maryland | 1 | $86 | $86 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $74 | $74 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $68 | $68 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $61 | $61 |
| Indiana | 2 | $52 | $26 |
| Georgia | 1 | $51 | $51 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $32 | $16 |
| Virginia | 1 | $23 | $23 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $15 | $15 |