Obstetric, Inpatient: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $46,314 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 23
- Received a payment
- 23 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $46K
- Average, those paid
- $2,014
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 obstetric, inpatient clinicians
Across 1 obstetric, inpatient clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $47,782 in total — an average of $47,782 each, of which $47,040 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 1 | $28,205 | $28,205 |
| California | 3 | $13,448 | $4,483 |
| Florida | 2 | $1,349 | $675 |
| New York | 3 | $739 | $246 |
| Michigan | 1 | $709 | $709 |
| Illinois | 1 | $656 | $656 |
| Massachusetts | 3 | $540 | $180 |
| Georgia | 4 | $396 | $99 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $116 | $116 |
| Utah | 1 | $103 | $103 |
| Texas | 1 | $23 | $23 |
| Alabama | 1 | $16 | $16 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $14 | $14 |