Occupational Health: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $109,519 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 170
- Received a payment
- 170 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $110K
- Average, those paid
- $644
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 occupational health clinicians
Across 25 occupational health clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $858,091 in total — an average of $34,324 each, of which $29,620 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 | 33 | $31,812 | $964 |
| Florida | 10 | $17,404 | $1,740 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | $8,527 | $947 |
| Ohio | 3 | $6,342 | $2,114 |
| Arizona | 2 | $5,159 | $2,580 |
| South Carolina | 8 | $4,748 | $593 |
| Nevada | 3 | $4,725 | $1,575 |
| North Dakota | 4 | $3,585 | $896 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $3,174 | $1,587 |
| Texas | 15 | $3,130 | $209 |
| Maryland | 2 | $3,077 | $1,538 |
| Indiana | 7 | $3,072 | $439 |
| Louisiana | 5 | $2,103 | $421 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $1,201 | $240 |
| New York | 4 | $1,172 | $293 |
| Georgia | 6 | $1,084 | $181 |
| Tennessee | 5 | $1,060 | $212 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | $1,030 | $129 |
| Kentucky | 2 | $926 | $463 |
| Missouri | 2 | $916 | $458 |
| Kansas | 1 | $786 | $786 |
| AP | 1 | $753 | $753 |
| Montana | 1 | $722 | $722 |
| New Jersey | 5 | $679 | $136 |
| Oregon | 1 | $566 | $566 |
| Illinois | 3 | $512 | $171 |
| Alabama | 1 | $236 | $236 |
| Minnesota | 3 | $200 | $67 |
| Iowa | 3 | $186 | $62 |
| Colorado | 2 | $124 | $62 |
| Virginia | 1 | $121 | $121 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $101 | $51 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $86 | $43 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $57 | $29 |
| Michigan | 2 | $52 | $26 |
| Washington | 2 | $47 | $24 |
| Utah | 1 | $16 | $16 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $14 | $14 |
| Idaho | 1 | $14 | $14 |