MOHS-Micrographic Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $22,474,195 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,328
- Received a payment
- 1,325 (99.8%)
- Total reported
- $22.5M
- Average, those paid
- $16,962
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 mohs-micrographic surgery clinicians
Across 1,191 mohs-micrographic surgery clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $961,697,676 in total — an average of $807,471 each, of which $678,583 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 38 | $4,618,317 | $121,535 |
| Nevada | 10 | $3,662,188 | $366,219 |
| Texas | 109 | $2,503,896 | $22,972 |
| New York | 75 | $1,698,327 | $22,644 |
| Florida | 141 | $1,299,245 | $9,215 |
| Tennessee | 40 | $1,235,700 | $30,892 |
| New Jersey | 30 | $1,072,562 | $35,752 |
| South Carolina | 22 | $882,629 | $40,120 |
| California | 144 | $761,549 | $5,289 |
| Colorado | 37 | $638,675 | $17,261 |
| Missouri | 27 | $431,725 | $15,990 |
| Georgia | 40 | $426,705 | $10,668 |
| Arkansas | 10 | $314,192 | $31,419 |
| North Carolina | 50 | $288,835 | $5,777 |
| Maryland | 26 | $283,830 | $10,917 |
| Ohio | 35 | $232,247 | $6,636 |
| Illinois | 40 | $200,725 | $5,018 |
| Indiana | 17 | $160,308 | $9,430 |
| Pennsylvania | 48 | $156,806 | $3,267 |
| Louisiana | 16 | $145,486 | $9,093 |
| Massachusetts | 38 | $143,062 | $3,765 |
| Michigan | 30 | $137,758 | $4,592 |
| Oregon | 19 | $117,188 | $6,168 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $114,867 | $28,717 |
| Arizona | 38 | $105,596 | $2,779 |
| Virginia | 36 | $101,376 | $2,816 |
| Kansas | 14 | $92,122 | $6,580 |
| Alabama | 19 | $90,724 | $4,775 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | $84,332 | $10,542 |
| Connecticut | 9 | $82,648 | $9,183 |
| Kentucky | 19 | $78,714 | $4,143 |
| Minnesota | 29 | $49,783 | $1,717 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | $45,350 | $4,123 |
| Utah | 13 | $36,964 | $2,843 |
| Iowa | 11 | $31,447 | $2,859 |
| Mississippi | 4 | $21,473 | $5,368 |
| Idaho | 9 | $20,754 | $2,306 |
| New Hampshire | 9 | $15,194 | $1,688 |
| Nebraska | 5 | $13,827 | $2,765 |
| Alaska | 2 | $12,204 | $6,102 |
| Montana | 5 | $10,830 | $2,166 |
| West Virginia | 5 | $10,260 | $2,052 |
| Rhode Island | 7 | $8,598 | $1,228 |
| Hawaii | 7 | $7,914 | $1,131 |
| Delaware | 6 | $6,908 | $1,151 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $6,720 | $2,240 |
| New Mexico | 4 | $4,309 | $1,077 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $3,028 | $3,028 |
| Vermont | 1 | $2,820 | $2,820 |
| South Dakota | 3 | $1,281 | $427 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $1,265 | $1,265 |
| Maine | 3 | $928 | $309 |