Otology & Neurotology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $4,489,744 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 371
- Received a payment
- 369 (99.5%)
- Total reported
- $4.5M
- Average, those paid
- $12,167
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 2 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 otology & neurotology clinicians
Across 297 otology & neurotology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $37,724,399 in total — an average of $127,018 each, of which $126,836 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 25 | $732,699 | $29,308 |
| California | 43 | $660,979 | $15,372 |
| North Carolina | 7 | $503,153 | $71,879 |
| Michigan | 23 | $293,418 | $12,757 |
| Texas | 33 | $264,127 | $8,004 |
| Washington | 6 | $247,821 | $41,304 |
| Ohio | 16 | $245,238 | $15,327 |
| New York | 26 | $222,085 | $8,542 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | $181,472 | $12,962 |
| Colorado | 8 | $147,625 | $18,453 |
| Missouri | 11 | $108,486 | $9,862 |
| Utah | 6 | $82,805 | $13,801 |
| Kansas | 6 | $74,719 | $12,453 |
| Georgia | 11 | $70,123 | $6,375 |
| Tennessee | 8 | $69,218 | $8,652 |
| Illinois | 16 | $68,177 | $4,261 |
| Indiana | 9 | $56,440 | $6,271 |
| Iowa | 3 | $55,550 | $18,517 |
| Minnesota | 8 | $51,168 | $6,396 |
| Arizona | 9 | $51,119 | $5,680 |
| New Mexico | 3 | $37,706 | $12,569 |
| Oklahoma | 4 | $36,734 | $9,183 |
| Kentucky | 3 | $30,784 | $10,261 |
| Oregon | 5 | $29,199 | $5,840 |
| Alabama | 2 | $25,781 | $12,890 |
| Louisiana | 6 | $23,446 | $3,908 |
| New Jersey | 7 | $22,042 | $3,149 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $21,206 | $5,302 |
| Idaho | 1 | $13,711 | $13,711 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $10,810 | $2,162 |
| Massachusetts | 4 | $10,050 | $2,513 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | $9,167 | $1,833 |
| Virginia | 6 | $7,412 | $1,235 |
| Maryland | 3 | $5,401 | $1,800 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $5,365 | $1,073 |
| Nevada | 2 | $4,146 | $2,073 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $3,097 | $1,032 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $1,749 | $874 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $1,286 | $643 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $1,284 | $642 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $1,168 | $584 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $719 | $359 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $688 | $229 |
| Montana | 1 | $271 | $271 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $103 | $103 |