Medical: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $76,901,268 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 24,987
- Received a payment
- 24,978 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $76.9M
- Average, those paid
- $3,079
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 9 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 medical clinicians
Across 14,537 medical clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $759,168,690 in total — an average of $52,223 each, of which $42,018 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 2,031 | $8,906,540 | $4,385 |
| California | 2,087 | $7,589,397 | $3,637 |
| Georgia | 950 | $6,266,705 | $6,597 |
| Texas | 1,490 | $6,205,685 | $4,165 |
| New York | 2,395 | $5,976,445 | $2,495 |
| Pennsylvania | 2,594 | $5,575,174 | $2,149 |
| Colorado | 766 | $3,367,461 | $4,396 |
| Arizona | 748 | $3,169,425 | $4,237 |
| North Carolina | 878 | $2,849,973 | $3,246 |
| Michigan | 755 | $2,360,540 | $3,127 |
| Virginia | 632 | $1,947,723 | $3,082 |
| Connecticut | 592 | $1,800,521 | $3,041 |
| Maryland | 543 | $1,438,007 | $2,648 |
| New Jersey | 573 | $1,180,386 | $2,060 |
| Oklahoma | 370 | $1,163,064 | $3,143 |
| Ohio | 547 | $1,162,922 | $2,126 |
| South Carolina | 384 | $1,081,666 | $2,817 |
| Tennessee | 480 | $1,075,867 | $2,241 |
| Illinois | 449 | $986,703 | $2,198 |
| Louisiana | 253 | $957,571 | $3,785 |
| Indiana | 273 | $896,888 | $3,285 |
| Nevada | 250 | $858,019 | $3,432 |
| Kansas | 205 | $795,300 | $3,880 |
| Utah | 263 | $784,667 | $2,984 |
| Massachusetts | 421 | $782,964 | $1,860 |
| Washington | 457 | $701,598 | $1,535 |
| Nebraska | 216 | $598,803 | $2,772 |
| Kentucky | 222 | $593,289 | $2,672 |
| Missouri | 198 | $564,430 | $2,851 |
| West Virginia | 233 | $511,602 | $2,196 |
| Arkansas | 133 | $474,710 | $3,569 |
| Idaho | 265 | $425,143 | $1,604 |
| Minnesota | 202 | $412,467 | $2,042 |
| Iowa | 141 | $376,351 | $2,669 |
| Hawaii | 63 | $374,356 | $5,942 |
| Alabama | 175 | $356,196 | $2,035 |
| Oregon | 364 | $354,264 | $973 |
| Wisconsin | 247 | $248,890 | $1,008 |
| Mississippi | 65 | $235,987 | $3,631 |
| New Hampshire | 124 | $222,341 | $1,793 |
| Delaware | 73 | $202,019 | $2,767 |
| Alaska | 140 | $198,772 | $1,420 |
| Rhode Island | 77 | $151,817 | $1,972 |
| New Mexico | 156 | $150,430 | $964 |
| South Dakota | 43 | $141,620 | $3,293 |
| Montana | 134 | $121,250 | $905 |
| District of Columbia | 87 | $82,806 | $952 |
| North Dakota | 51 | $81,876 | $1,605 |
| Maine | 67 | $64,256 | $959 |
| Wyoming | 56 | $58,194 | $1,039 |
| Puerto Rico | 50 | $13,488 | $270 |
| AE | 4 | $2,000 | $500 |
| Vermont | 11 | $1,978 | $180 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $448 | $448 |
| AP | 2 | $152 | $76 |