Orthopaedic Trauma: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $71,812,968 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 839
- Received a payment
- 839 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $71.8M
- Average, those paid
- $85,594
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 orthopaedic trauma clinicians
Across 703 orthopaedic trauma clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $88,370,315 in total — an average of $125,705 each, of which $122,397 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 | 106 | $12,226,228 | $115,342 |
| Florida | 65 | $10,428,861 | $160,444 |
| Texas | 74 | $8,569,156 | $115,799 |
| Washington | 33 | $6,238,856 | $189,056 |
| Georgia | 28 | $4,527,346 | $161,691 |
| New Jersey | 17 | $4,438,172 | $261,069 |
| Maryland | 17 | $3,749,241 | $220,544 |
| Ohio | 38 | $3,484,890 | $91,708 |
| Missouri | 28 | $1,985,099 | $70,896 |
| Vermont | 4 | $1,716,944 | $429,236 |
| South Carolina | 19 | $1,581,677 | $83,246 |
| North Carolina | 16 | $1,208,874 | $75,555 |
| New York | 44 | $1,083,042 | $24,615 |
| Arizona | 30 | $985,823 | $32,861 |
| Indiana | 14 | $952,125 | $68,009 |
| Kentucky | 8 | $888,656 | $111,082 |
| Colorado | 19 | $692,003 | $36,421 |
| Louisiana | 13 | $686,560 | $52,812 |
| Tennessee | 27 | $597,107 | $22,115 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | $520,177 | $32,511 |
| Illinois | 16 | $507,615 | $31,726 |
| Virginia | 21 | $500,048 | $23,812 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $473,042 | $236,521 |
| Oklahoma | 14 | $442,090 | $31,578 |
| Utah | 7 | $428,355 | $61,194 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | $424,682 | $20,223 |
| Iowa | 10 | $312,746 | $31,275 |
| Wyoming | 3 | $286,236 | $95,412 |
| Nevada | 13 | $252,542 | $19,426 |
| Maine | 7 | $195,026 | $27,861 |
| Connecticut | 6 | $175,537 | $29,256 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $160,136 | $40,034 |
| Kansas | 5 | $152,233 | $30,447 |
| Wisconsin | 4 | $122,132 | $30,533 |
| Alabama | 9 | $120,150 | $13,350 |
| New Hampshire | 4 | $97,605 | $24,401 |
| Oregon | 9 | $94,379 | $10,487 |
| Mississippi | 7 | $91,488 | $13,070 |
| Michigan | 14 | $90,305 | $6,450 |
| West Virginia | 7 | $69,430 | $9,919 |
| Minnesota | 12 | $65,165 | $5,430 |
| New Mexico | 3 | $46,257 | $15,419 |
| Montana | 5 | $39,058 | $7,812 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $27,157 | $13,578 |
| Idaho | 3 | $24,550 | $8,183 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $20,448 | $10,224 |
| Delaware | 2 | $9,806 | $4,903 |
| Puerto Rico | 5 | $8,965 | $1,793 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $6,002 | $6,002 |
| District of Columbia | 1 | $4,768 | $4,768 |
| Alaska | 1 | $3,299 | $3,299 |
| South Dakota | 3 | $875 | $292 |