Medical Biochemical Genetics: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $170,213 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 16
- Received a payment
- 16 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $170K
- Average, those paid
- $10,638
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 medical biochemical genetics clinicians
Across 2 medical biochemical genetics clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $6,071 in total — an average of $3,035 each, of which $3,035 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 2 | $115,135 | $57,567 |
| Maryland | 1 | $24,534 | $24,534 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $14,839 | $14,839 |
| Arizona | 1 | $6,599 | $6,599 |
| Utah | 1 | $6,169 | $6,169 |
| Texas | 2 | $1,469 | $735 |
| New York | 1 | $536 | $536 |
| Washington | 2 | $486 | $243 |
| Michigan | 1 | $179 | $179 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $82 | $82 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $77 | $77 |
| Georgia | 1 | $60 | $60 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $49 | $49 |