Occupational Vision: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $63,845 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 63
- Received a payment
- 63 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $64K
- Average, those paid
- $1,013
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 vision clinicians
Across 35 occupational vision clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,234,166 in total — an average of $35,262 each, of which $35,262 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 1 | $10,290 | $10,290 |
| Georgia | 2 | $7,069 | $3,534 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $6,946 | $3,473 |
| Minnesota | 4 | $6,503 | $1,626 |
| Florida | 11 | $5,804 | $528 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $5,298 | $5,298 |
| New Jersey | 5 | $3,648 | $730 |
| Indiana | 4 | $3,268 | $817 |
| California | 4 | $2,799 | $700 |
| Nevada | 2 | $2,202 | $1,101 |
| Texas | 3 | $2,174 | $725 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $1,276 | $1,276 |
| Colorado | 2 | $1,042 | $521 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $1,038 | $1,038 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $948 | $474 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $839 | $420 |
| Illinois | 1 | $737 | $737 |
| Ohio | 3 | $553 | $184 |
| Michigan | 2 | $361 | $181 |
| Virginia | 1 | $306 | $306 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $228 | $228 |
| New York | 4 | $163 | $41 |
| Kansas | 1 | $114 | $114 |
| Maryland | 1 | $113 | $113 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $96 | $96 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $30 | $30 |