Orofacial Pain: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $455,050 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 114
- Received a payment
- 111 (97.4%)
- Total reported
- $455K
- Average, those paid
- $4,100
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 orofacial pain clinicians
Across 44 orofacial pain clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,701,991 in total — an average of $61,409 each, of which $58,135 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 | 16 | $391,174 | $24,448 |
| Maryland | 3 | $16,000 | $5,333 |
| Texas | 16 | $15,490 | $968 |
| Arizona | 8 | $11,056 | $1,382 |
| Virginia | 2 | $3,547 | $1,773 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | $2,879 | $320 |
| Georgia | 2 | $2,512 | $1,256 |
| Kentucky | 5 | $1,913 | $383 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $1,537 | $769 |
| New York | 5 | $1,521 | $304 |
| Minnesota | 10 | $1,301 | $130 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $1,101 | $367 |
| Washington | 5 | $931 | $186 |
| Michigan | 3 | $761 | $254 |
| Illinois | 1 | $734 | $734 |
| North Carolina | 6 | $598 | $100 |
| Pennsylvania | 3 | $494 | $165 |
| Nevada | 2 | $433 | $217 |
| Tennessee | 3 | $413 | $138 |
| South Carolina | 3 | $283 | $94 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $207 | $207 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $73 | $36 |
| Colorado | 1 | $54 | $54 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $22 | $22 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $15 | $15 |
| Oregon | 1 | $0 | $0 |