Neuropsychiatry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $6,494 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 39
- Received a payment
- 2 (5.1%)
- Total reported
- $6K
- Average, those paid
- $3,247
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 37 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 neuropsychiatry clinicians
Across 39 neuropsychiatry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,443,576 in total — an average of $37,015 each, of which $37,015 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 | 1 | $6,409 | $6,409 |
| Utah | 2 | $85 | $42 |
| Florida | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Michigan | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Massachusetts | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $0 | $0 |
| New York | 6 | $0 | $0 |
| Iowa | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| California | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maryland | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Georgia | 3 | $0 | $0 |
| Ohio | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Colorado | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Maine | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Vermont | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Virginia | 1 | $0 | $0 |