Neurocritical Care: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,793,567 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 476
- Received a payment
- 470 (98.7%)
- Total reported
- $1.8M
- Average, those paid
- $3,816
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 6 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 neurocritical care clinicians
Across 417 neurocritical care clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $22,172,418 in total — an average of $53,171 each, of which $53,171 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 Jersey | 7 | $614,706 | $87,815 |
| California | 65 | $229,655 | $3,533 |
| Texas | 46 | $131,940 | $2,868 |
| New York | 39 | $115,567 | $2,963 |
| Illinois | 39 | $112,246 | $2,878 |
| Louisiana | 7 | $85,930 | $12,276 |
| Michigan | 11 | $80,223 | $7,293 |
| Georgia | 19 | $74,982 | $3,946 |
| Missouri | 11 | $71,649 | $6,514 |
| Arizona | 16 | $60,135 | $3,758 |
| Ohio | 30 | $49,621 | $1,654 |
| Florida | 36 | $47,204 | $1,311 |
| Colorado | 7 | $16,531 | $2,362 |
| Alabama | 5 | $14,393 | $2,879 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $13,090 | $3,273 |
| Indiana | 5 | $12,615 | $2,523 |
| South Carolina | 10 | $8,196 | $820 |
| Washington | 4 | $7,797 | $1,949 |
| South Dakota | 2 | $5,105 | $2,553 |
| Connecticut | 9 | $4,986 | $554 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | $4,200 | $840 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | $4,071 | $370 |
| Maryland | 9 | $3,978 | $442 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $3,762 | $3,762 |
| North Carolina | 16 | $3,491 | $218 |
| Tennessee | 6 | $2,828 | $471 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $2,479 | $2,479 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | $2,342 | $195 |
| Nevada | 2 | $2,194 | $1,097 |
| Delaware | 8 | $1,826 | $228 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $1,039 | $519 |
| Oregon | 6 | $919 | $153 |
| Minnesota | 6 | $882 | $147 |
| Utah | 2 | $684 | $342 |
| Oklahoma | 3 | $629 | $210 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $501 | $501 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $482 | $241 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $222 | $222 |
| North Dakota | 2 | $161 | $80 |
| Virginia | 2 | $122 | $61 |
| Kansas | 2 | $70 | $35 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $51 | $25 |
| Maine | 1 | $41 | $41 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $19 | $19 |