Maternal & Fetal Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $6,233,209 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 2,004
- Received a payment
- 1,973 (98.5%)
- Total reported
- $6.2M
- Average, those paid
- $3,159
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 31 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 maternal & fetal medicine clinicians
Across 208 maternal & fetal medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,894,579 in total — an average of $9,109 each, of which $8,857 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 Mexico | 12 | $891,127 | $74,261 |
| New York | 185 | $648,189 | $3,504 |
| Texas | 228 | $579,592 | $2,542 |
| Kentucky | 33 | $567,807 | $17,206 |
| California | 178 | $498,007 | $2,798 |
| Vermont | 1 | $348,795 | $348,795 |
| North Carolina | 64 | $332,764 | $5,199 |
| Illinois | 50 | $262,674 | $5,253 |
| Ohio | 77 | $248,678 | $3,230 |
| Florida | 146 | $208,969 | $1,431 |
| Michigan | 44 | $199,101 | $4,525 |
| South Carolina | 34 | $180,312 | $5,303 |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | $153,002 | $1,962 |
| Virginia | 52 | $128,527 | $2,472 |
| Indiana | 24 | $108,396 | $4,517 |
| Massachusetts | 48 | $101,898 | $2,123 |
| Tennessee | 46 | $91,153 | $1,982 |
| Rhode Island | 12 | $72,653 | $6,054 |
| Arizona | 53 | $69,951 | $1,320 |
| Maryland | 44 | $62,890 | $1,429 |
| New Jersey | 79 | $62,199 | $787 |
| Utah | 21 | $47,285 | $2,252 |
| Colorado | 41 | $44,045 | $1,074 |
| Oregon | 27 | $37,250 | $1,380 |
| Nevada | 25 | $32,461 | $1,298 |
| Washington | 36 | $31,143 | $865 |
| Connecticut | 34 | $28,575 | $840 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | $25,996 | $1,625 |
| Georgia | 55 | $21,694 | $394 |
| Minnesota | 16 | $21,444 | $1,340 |
| Missouri | 41 | $20,087 | $490 |
| Iowa | 8 | $18,138 | $2,267 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | $15,706 | $785 |
| Kansas | 13 | $15,535 | $1,195 |
| Louisiana | 27 | $8,662 | $321 |
| Idaho | 8 | $8,277 | $1,035 |
| Hawaii | 11 | $6,175 | $561 |
| Alabama | 22 | $5,885 | $267 |
| Montana | 4 | $5,493 | $1,373 |
| Delaware | 9 | $5,075 | $564 |
| Puerto Rico | 7 | $4,285 | $612 |
| Wisconsin | 26 | $3,543 | $136 |
| Nebraska | 14 | $2,533 | $181 |
| North Dakota | 4 | $2,286 | $571 |
| Mississippi | 7 | $2,060 | $294 |
| Arkansas | 9 | $1,119 | $124 |
| Alaska | 2 | $793 | $396 |
| West Virginia | 5 | $493 | $99 |
| South Dakota | 4 | $237 | $59 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $194 | $97 |
| Maine | 1 | $30 | $30 |
| AP | 1 | $29 | $29 |