Obstetrics: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3,613,220 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,063
- Received a payment
- 1,062 (99.9%)
- Total reported
- $3.6M
- Average, those paid
- $3,402
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 obstetrics clinicians
Across 546 obstetrics clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $10,162,899 in total — an average of $18,613 each, of which $17,340 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 119 | $702,554 | $5,904 |
| Michigan | 48 | $457,933 | $9,540 |
| South Carolina | 15 | $311,617 | $20,774 |
| Texas | 85 | $304,386 | $3,581 |
| Florida | 78 | $188,465 | $2,416 |
| West Virginia | 5 | $178,310 | $35,662 |
| Illinois | 42 | $106,017 | $2,524 |
| Pennsylvania | 36 | $96,559 | $2,682 |
| Ohio | 39 | $89,310 | $2,290 |
| Arizona | 23 | $85,085 | $3,699 |
| Georgia | 41 | $78,565 | $1,916 |
| Virginia | 41 | $78,238 | $1,908 |
| New York | 82 | $75,122 | $916 |
| Nevada | 11 | $61,326 | $5,575 |
| Missouri | 15 | $60,142 | $4,009 |
| Puerto Rico | 22 | $54,017 | $2,455 |
| Indiana | 20 | $52,342 | $2,617 |
| Tennessee | 26 | $46,172 | $1,776 |
| Louisiana | 17 | $43,841 | $2,579 |
| North Carolina | 33 | $40,931 | $1,240 |
| Alabama | 14 | $40,546 | $2,896 |
| Utah | 15 | $40,538 | $2,703 |
| New Jersey | 31 | $40,127 | $1,294 |
| New Mexico | 15 | $36,154 | $2,410 |
| Nebraska | 8 | $34,383 | $4,298 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | $32,310 | $2,937 |
| Arkansas | 12 | $32,137 | $2,678 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | $29,538 | $2,685 |
| Washington | 20 | $27,355 | $1,368 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | $27,100 | $9,033 |
| Montana | 9 | $23,444 | $2,605 |
| Maryland | 17 | $22,189 | $1,305 |
| Colorado | 13 | $21,809 | $1,678 |
| Kansas | 8 | $18,275 | $2,284 |
| Iowa | 8 | $12,464 | $1,558 |
| Connecticut | 11 | $10,196 | $927 |
| Kentucky | 13 | $8,857 | $681 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $8,848 | $2,949 |
| Idaho | 3 | $7,685 | $2,562 |
| Mississippi | 4 | $5,930 | $1,483 |
| Vermont | 2 | $5,544 | $2,772 |
| Minnesota | 7 | $5,284 | $755 |
| Hawaii | 5 | $4,299 | $860 |
| Oregon | 7 | $3,525 | $504 |
| Delaware | 1 | $1,211 | $1,211 |
| District of Columbia | 4 | $936 | $234 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $416 | $208 |
| Maine | 1 | $389 | $389 |
| Alaska | 2 | $324 | $162 |
| South Dakota | 3 | $248 | $83 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $125 | $125 |
| Guam | 1 | $104 | $104 |