Occupational Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $3,578,779 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 753
- Received a payment
- 742 (98.5%)
- Total reported
- $3.6M
- Average, those paid
- $4,823
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 11 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 medicine clinicians
Across 76 occupational medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,750,140 in total — an average of $49,344 each, of which $46,952 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 | 139 | $1,426,648 | $10,264 |
| Illinois | 28 | $465,363 | $16,620 |
| Pennsylvania | 35 | $409,265 | $11,693 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | $254,788 | $19,599 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | $209,035 | $19,003 |
| Iowa | 14 | $162,680 | $11,620 |
| North Carolina | 7 | $112,487 | $16,070 |
| Texas | 51 | $103,757 | $2,034 |
| Florida | 34 | $82,148 | $2,416 |
| Georgia | 15 | $61,576 | $4,105 |
| Minnesota | 16 | $44,448 | $2,778 |
| Michigan | 20 | $42,984 | $2,149 |
| Missouri | 20 | $22,286 | $1,114 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $21,546 | $2,693 |
| Virginia | 13 | $20,275 | $1,560 |
| Alabama | 14 | $14,534 | $1,038 |
| Indiana | 14 | $14,467 | $1,033 |
| Tennessee | 14 | $12,800 | $914 |
| Arizona | 18 | $11,904 | $661 |
| Colorado | 29 | $11,706 | $404 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $10,660 | $5,330 |
| Puerto Rico | 18 | $9,250 | $514 |
| New York | 19 | $7,455 | $392 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $6,508 | $3,254 |
| Kentucky | 10 | $5,717 | $572 |
| Idaho | 6 | $4,983 | $830 |
| Oklahoma | 16 | $4,928 | $308 |
| Ohio | 30 | $4,383 | $146 |
| Washington | 21 | $3,686 | $176 |
| Nevada | 17 | $2,960 | $174 |
| New Jersey | 12 | $1,936 | $161 |
| Kansas | 4 | $1,926 | $481 |
| Utah | 9 | $1,883 | $209 |
| South Dakota | 2 | $1,187 | $594 |
| Oregon | 5 | $1,172 | $234 |
| South Carolina | 13 | $893 | $69 |
| New Mexico | 8 | $740 | $93 |
| West Virginia | 9 | $701 | $78 |
| Louisiana | 9 | $689 | $77 |
| Hawaii | 5 | $590 | $118 |
| Maryland | 7 | $495 | $71 |
| Delaware | 3 | $410 | $137 |
| Maine | 4 | $303 | $76 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $207 | $104 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $174 | $174 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $110 | $55 |
| Mississippi | 1 | $71 | $71 |
| AP | 1 | $40 | $40 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $25 | $12 |