Neuropathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,117,454 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 89
- Received a payment
- 85 (95.5%)
- Total reported
- $1.1M
- Average, those paid
- $13,147
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 4 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 neuropathology clinicians
Across 56 neuropathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,231,220 in total — an average of $57,700 each, of which $57,700 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 | 3 | $883,654 | $294,551 |
| New York | 10 | $89,232 | $8,923 |
| Texas | 6 | $66,468 | $11,078 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $15,791 | $7,895 |
| California | 11 | $11,751 | $1,068 |
| Arizona | 3 | $8,817 | $2,939 |
| Iowa | 3 | $8,577 | $2,859 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $7,357 | $3,678 |
| Georgia | 1 | $6,817 | $6,817 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | $6,271 | $896 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $3,743 | $749 |
| Virginia | 6 | $3,427 | $571 |
| Oregon | 1 | $2,394 | $2,394 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $776 | $259 |
| Florida | 2 | $428 | $214 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $418 | $209 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $304 | $152 |
| Missouri | 3 | $269 | $90 |
| Illinois | 5 | $210 | $42 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $191 | $96 |
| Ohio | 1 | $190 | $190 |
| Utah | 2 | $135 | $68 |
| Tennessee | 2 | $72 | $36 |
| Maryland | 1 | $68 | $68 |
| Michigan | 1 | $63 | $63 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $18 | $18 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $16 | $16 |
| Mississippi | 1 | $0 | $0 |