Nuclear Radiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3,899,174 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 218
- Received a payment
- 211 (96.8%)
- Total reported
- $3.9M
- Average, those paid
- $18,479
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 7 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 radiology clinicians
Across 156 nuclear radiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $75,361,263 in total — an average of $483,085 each, of which $482,738 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | $1,837,677 | $367,535 |
| California | 42 | $1,066,830 | $25,401 |
| New York | 18 | $272,962 | $15,165 |
| Illinois | 7 | $264,467 | $37,781 |
| Texas | 20 | $128,358 | $6,418 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | $120,167 | $8,583 |
| Virginia | 5 | $56,261 | $11,252 |
| Georgia | 9 | $27,645 | $3,072 |
| Indiana | 4 | $22,953 | $5,738 |
| Tennessee | 5 | $20,806 | $4,161 |
| Colorado | 4 | $10,773 | $2,693 |
| Iowa | 3 | $10,487 | $3,496 |
| Maryland | 6 | $9,454 | $1,576 |
| Vermont | 1 | $8,243 | $8,243 |
| Florida | 15 | $7,608 | $507 |
| Minnesota | 3 | $6,354 | $2,118 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $5,027 | $2,514 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | $4,589 | $4,589 |
| Washington | 8 | $3,732 | $466 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $3,510 | $1,170 |
| South Carolina | 2 | $2,958 | $1,479 |
| North Carolina | 4 | $2,161 | $540 |
| Ohio | 9 | $981 | $109 |
| Missouri | 5 | $947 | $189 |
| Arkansas | 3 | $761 | $254 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $706 | $706 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $653 | $327 |
| Alabama | 1 | $524 | $524 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $488 | $244 |
| Michigan | 2 | $400 | $200 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $156 | $156 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $144 | $72 |
| AE | 1 | $109 | $109 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $72 | $36 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $64 | $32 |
| Arizona | 1 | $59 | $59 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $57 | $57 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $31 | $15 |