Pediatric Anesthesiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,789,380 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,038
- Received a payment
- 1,030 (99.2%)
- Total reported
- $1.8M
- Average, those paid
- $1,737
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 8 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 pediatric anesthesiology clinicians
Across 227 pediatric anesthesiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $4,667,346 in total — an average of $20,561 each, of which $20,561 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 49 | $903,229 | $18,433 |
| California | 120 | $251,022 | $2,092 |
| Pennsylvania | 60 | $231,267 | $3,854 |
| Kentucky | 14 | $46,315 | $3,308 |
| Ohio | 129 | $44,884 | $348 |
| Texas | 105 | $38,983 | $371 |
| Florida | 84 | $34,825 | $415 |
| Missouri | 53 | $32,135 | $606 |
| North Carolina | 7 | $31,315 | $4,474 |
| Washington | 17 | $25,995 | $1,529 |
| Massachusetts | 17 | $22,442 | $1,320 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $16,850 | $2,106 |
| New York | 26 | $13,314 | $512 |
| Arizona | 37 | $12,467 | $337 |
| Virginia | 12 | $11,205 | $934 |
| Tennessee | 25 | $11,197 | $448 |
| Illinois | 32 | $9,716 | $304 |
| South Carolina | 21 | $6,500 | $310 |
| District of Columbia | 22 | $6,398 | $291 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | $4,143 | $296 |
| Oregon | 6 | $4,023 | $670 |
| Michigan | 14 | $3,454 | $247 |
| Arkansas | 15 | $3,292 | $219 |
| Iowa | 9 | $2,861 | $318 |
| Indiana | 7 | $2,440 | $349 |
| Utah | 14 | $2,412 | $172 |
| Georgia | 18 | $2,345 | $130 |
| Delaware | 13 | $2,310 | $178 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | $1,923 | $192 |
| New Jersey | 16 | $1,872 | $117 |
| Louisiana | 11 | $1,848 | $168 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $1,154 | $577 |
| Maryland | 9 | $773 | $86 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $753 | $377 |
| New Mexico | 5 | $670 | $134 |
| Alabama | 7 | $579 | $83 |
| Idaho | 3 | $473 | $158 |
| Nevada | 3 | $447 | $149 |
| Nebraska | 5 | $424 | $85 |
| Minnesota | 4 | $331 | $83 |
| Kansas | 3 | $232 | $77 |
| West Virginia | 3 | $213 | $71 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $177 | $89 |
| Montana | 1 | $39 | $39 |
| Maine | 1 | $25 | $25 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $20 | $20 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $15 | $15 |