Ophthalmology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,521,045,241 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 19,563
- Received a payment
- 18,849 (96.4%)
- Total reported
- $1.5B
- Average, those paid
- $80,696
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 714 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.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,355 | $263,858,684 | $194,730 |
| California | 2,513 | $228,233,461 | $90,821 |
| Florida | 1,405 | $135,944,687 | $96,758 |
| Maryland | 493 | $101,400,675 | $205,681 |
| New York | 1,587 | $82,323,332 | $51,874 |
| North Carolina | 588 | $72,931,277 | $124,033 |
| Ohio | 640 | $57,838,241 | $90,372 |
| Nevada | 121 | $51,459,265 | $425,283 |
| Pennsylvania | 920 | $45,240,700 | $49,175 |
| Minnesota | 330 | $43,387,910 | $131,479 |
| Illinois | 773 | $38,989,917 | $50,440 |
| Massachusetts | 653 | $35,543,121 | $54,431 |
| Virginia | 509 | $34,199,337 | $67,189 |
| South Carolina | 293 | $30,437,114 | $103,881 |
| Georgia | 481 | $30,436,740 | $63,278 |
| New Jersey | 583 | $28,258,334 | $48,471 |
| Colorado | 262 | $21,672,594 | $82,720 |
| Arizona | 310 | $20,444,653 | $65,950 |
| Tennessee | 323 | $19,583,475 | $60,630 |
| Missouri | 286 | $18,003,075 | $62,948 |
| Iowa | 172 | $16,093,817 | $93,569 |
| Puerto Rico | 214 | $15,392,178 | $71,926 |
| South Dakota | 52 | $12,379,457 | $238,066 |
| Michigan | 674 | $12,081,870 | $17,926 |
| Wisconsin | 337 | $11,206,644 | $33,254 |
| Washington | 428 | $10,452,766 | $24,422 |
| Indiana | 266 | $9,927,160 | $37,320 |
| New Mexico | 81 | $9,716,015 | $119,951 |
| Utah | 191 | $8,234,958 | $43,115 |
| Kansas | 135 | $7,495,989 | $55,526 |
| Alabama | 197 | $6,348,040 | $32,224 |
| Oregon | 248 | $6,214,366 | $25,058 |
| Kentucky | 216 | $6,044,124 | $27,982 |
| Hawaii | 120 | $5,935,848 | $49,465 |
| North Dakota | 41 | $4,490,295 | $109,519 |
| Louisiana | 286 | $2,776,219 | $9,707 |
| Connecticut | 279 | $2,743,183 | $9,832 |
| Nebraska | 105 | $2,660,410 | $25,337 |
| West Virginia | 85 | $1,793,404 | $21,099 |
| Montana | 52 | $1,678,258 | $32,274 |
| Oklahoma | 183 | $1,659,793 | $9,070 |
| District of Columbia | 74 | $1,240,222 | $16,760 |
| Mississippi | 150 | $1,042,751 | $6,952 |
| Arkansas | 125 | $775,093 | $6,201 |
| New Hampshire | 80 | $610,924 | $7,637 |
| Vermont | 35 | $575,213 | $16,435 |
| Rhode Island | 69 | $568,717 | $8,242 |
| Idaho | 60 | $274,189 | $4,570 |
| Delaware | 49 | $190,948 | $3,897 |
| Maine | 74 | $139,435 | $1,884 |
| AE | 6 | $49,517 | $8,253 |
| Alaska | 30 | $47,990 | $1,600 |
| GU | 5 | $6,509 | $1,302 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 6 | $5,439 | $907 |
| Wyoming | 9 | $5,002 | $556 |
| ZZ | 1 | $1,084 | $1,084 |
| MP | 1 | $542 | $542 |