Nutrition: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $7,957 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 75
- Received a payment
- 75 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $8K
- Average, those paid
- $106
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 nutrition clinicians
Across 16 nutrition clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $514,020 in total — an average of $32,126 each, of which $29,339 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | $1,558 | $223 |
| Texas | 12 | $1,376 | $115 |
| New York | 7 | $1,188 | $170 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | $543 | $181 |
| California | 8 | $500 | $63 |
| Alabama | 1 | $269 | $269 |
| Arizona | 3 | $241 | $80 |
| Tennessee | 1 | $235 | $235 |
| Illinois | 3 | $195 | $65 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $174 | $87 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $169 | $169 |
| Ohio | 2 | $169 | $84 |
| Utah | 3 | $150 | $50 |
| Colorado | 1 | $147 | $147 |
| Michigan | 2 | $142 | $71 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $133 | $44 |
| Missouri | 2 | $130 | $65 |
| Kansas | 1 | $123 | $123 |
| Oregon | 1 | $121 | $121 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $112 | $112 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $67 | $33 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $40 | $40 |
| Nevada | 1 | $32 | $32 |
| Georgia | 1 | $29 | $29 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $23 | $23 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $21 | $21 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $19 | $19 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $18 | $18 |
| Idaho | 1 | $18 | $18 |
| Washington | 1 | $16 | $16 |