Obstetrics & Gynecology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $149,440,991 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 38,798
- Received a payment
- 37,282 (96.1%)
- Total reported
- $149.4M
- Average, those paid
- $4,008
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1,516 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 & gynecology clinicians
Across 20,479 obstetrics & gynecology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $349,211,470 in total — an average of $17,052 each, of which $15,974 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.
What obstetrics & gynecology clinicians earn
Medicare billing is not pay. For what clinicians in this field actually earn, the U.S. Department of Labor publishes employer-reported wages — median, low end and top 10% — nationally and by state.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 3,099 | $17,968,450 | $5,798 |
| California | 3,784 | $16,246,435 | $4,293 |
| Florida | 2,438 | $14,508,793 | $5,951 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,711 | $8,041,272 | $4,700 |
| New York | 2,673 | $7,774,407 | $2,908 |
| Illinois | 1,732 | $6,645,879 | $3,837 |
| North Carolina | 1,344 | $5,079,051 | $3,779 |
| Tennessee | 763 | $4,787,352 | $6,274 |
| New Jersey | 1,242 | $4,774,682 | $3,844 |
| Ohio | 1,376 | $4,274,444 | $3,106 |
| Michigan | 1,474 | $4,193,134 | $2,845 |
| Georgia | 1,324 | $3,756,052 | $2,837 |
| Oklahoma | 396 | $3,525,495 | $8,903 |
| Arizona | 757 | $3,218,587 | $4,252 |
| South Carolina | 673 | $3,109,219 | $4,620 |
| Virginia | 992 | $2,959,625 | $2,983 |
| Alabama | 537 | $2,927,776 | $5,452 |
| Missouri | 750 | $2,911,499 | $3,882 |
| Nevada | 308 | $2,894,049 | $9,396 |
| Maryland | 842 | $2,749,759 | $3,266 |
| Colorado | 705 | $2,097,410 | $2,975 |
| Indiana | 743 | $2,005,890 | $2,700 |
| Massachusetts | 910 | $1,991,178 | $2,188 |
| Utah | 294 | $1,922,369 | $6,539 |
| Louisiana | 608 | $1,873,481 | $3,081 |
| Washington | 733 | $1,685,811 | $2,300 |
| Connecticut | 605 | $1,406,553 | $2,325 |
| Minnesota | 615 | $1,314,676 | $2,138 |
| Kentucky | 474 | $1,308,325 | $2,760 |
| Mississippi | 318 | $1,123,214 | $3,532 |
| Arkansas | 272 | $1,088,566 | $4,002 |
| Wisconsin | 568 | $988,648 | $1,741 |
| Oregon | 480 | $817,518 | $1,703 |
| Kansas | 302 | $750,420 | $2,485 |
| Iowa | 274 | $735,046 | $2,683 |
| Delaware | 139 | $730,131 | $5,253 |
| Nebraska | 242 | $698,203 | $2,885 |
| Idaho | 166 | $689,400 | $4,153 |
| West Virginia | 172 | $625,831 | $3,639 |
| New Hampshire | 186 | $496,787 | $2,671 |
| Puerto Rico | 333 | $408,430 | $1,227 |
| District of Columbia | 195 | $392,728 | $2,014 |
| Rhode Island | 139 | $380,105 | $2,735 |
| Hawaii | 225 | $350,005 | $1,556 |
| North Dakota | 86 | $236,313 | $2,748 |
| Maine | 162 | $191,592 | $1,183 |
| New Mexico | 181 | $191,566 | $1,058 |
| Montana | 95 | $187,525 | $1,974 |
| Alaska | 97 | $147,860 | $1,524 |
| South Dakota | 96 | $106,822 | $1,113 |
| Wyoming | 58 | $101,055 | $1,742 |
| Vermont | 74 | $43,838 | $592 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 9 | $1,459 | $162 |
| AP | 8 | $825 | $103 |
| AE | 7 | $824 | $118 |
| Guam | 1 | $406 | $406 |
| AA | 2 | $174 | $87 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | 1 | $0 | $0 |