Nuclear Cardiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $8,383,393 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 140
- Received a payment
- 140 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $8.4M
- Average, those paid
- $59,881
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 nuclear cardiology clinicians
Across 111 nuclear cardiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $34,860,657 in total — an average of $314,060 each, of which $311,513 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 York | 21 | $5,825,936 | $277,426 |
| New Jersey | 34 | $662,550 | $19,487 |
| California | 10 | $625,909 | $62,591 |
| Missouri | 5 | $625,604 | $125,121 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | $154,885 | $25,814 |
| North Carolina | 3 | $153,662 | $51,221 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $127,562 | $15,945 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | $82,659 | $6,888 |
| Tennessee | 4 | $47,112 | $11,778 |
| Florida | 4 | $29,024 | $7,256 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $9,619 | $9,619 |
| Virginia | 2 | $9,147 | $4,574 |
| Georgia | 3 | $6,818 | $2,273 |
| Maryland | 1 | $6,777 | $6,777 |
| Ohio | 1 | $5,708 | $5,708 |
| Texas | 8 | $3,916 | $490 |
| Colorado | 3 | $2,387 | $796 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | $2,038 | $679 |
| Indiana | 1 | $546 | $546 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $430 | $430 |
| Arizona | 1 | $227 | $227 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $190 | $95 |
| Michigan | 1 | $180 | $180 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $137 | $137 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $129 | $129 |
| Illinois | 1 | $128 | $128 |
| Alabama | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| Utah | 1 | $12 | $12 |