Pediatric Cardiology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $20,779,290 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 2,339
- Received a payment
- 2,289 (97.9%)
- Total reported
- $20.8M
- Average, those paid
- $9,078
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 50 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 cardiology clinicians
Across 285 pediatric cardiology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,615,262 in total — an average of $5,668 each, of which $5,666 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 | 239 | $3,412,450 | $14,278 |
| Pennsylvania | 102 | $2,757,323 | $27,033 |
| Ohio | 126 | $2,365,409 | $18,773 |
| Florida | 185 | $1,526,933 | $8,254 |
| Michigan | 94 | $1,374,710 | $14,625 |
| Texas | 244 | $1,255,880 | $5,147 |
| Washington | 49 | $1,081,736 | $22,076 |
| Illinois | 104 | $1,051,857 | $10,114 |
| Missouri | 79 | $663,762 | $8,402 |
| North Carolina | 56 | $593,233 | $10,593 |
| Nevada | 18 | $555,648 | $30,869 |
| New York | 147 | $528,984 | $3,599 |
| Maryland | 24 | $435,576 | $18,149 |
| Minnesota | 41 | $354,153 | $8,638 |
| Mississippi | 12 | $305,136 | $25,428 |
| Colorado | 38 | $273,909 | $7,208 |
| Massachusetts | 57 | $261,547 | $4,589 |
| Tennessee | 63 | $247,255 | $3,925 |
| Wisconsin | 38 | $217,547 | $5,725 |
| Alabama | 22 | $204,182 | $9,281 |
| Arizona | 47 | $160,232 | $3,409 |
| Virginia | 59 | $137,929 | $2,338 |
| Georgia | 64 | $123,773 | $1,934 |
| Connecticut | 28 | $119,001 | $4,250 |
| Utah | 29 | $104,591 | $3,607 |
| Indiana | 34 | $101,404 | $2,982 |
| Louisiana | 38 | $94,970 | $2,499 |
| Iowa | 15 | $61,320 | $4,088 |
| West Virginia | 15 | $56,363 | $3,758 |
| Oregon | 20 | $55,469 | $2,773 |
| Oklahoma | 18 | $54,802 | $3,045 |
| District of Columbia | 27 | $44,381 | $1,644 |
| Kentucky | 34 | $38,015 | $1,118 |
| Delaware | 21 | $37,520 | $1,787 |
| New Jersey | 46 | $27,149 | $590 |
| Arkansas | 18 | $26,920 | $1,496 |
| Nebraska | 9 | $16,706 | $1,856 |
| Maine | 5 | $8,823 | $1,765 |
| New Mexico | 9 | $7,978 | $886 |
| New Hampshire | 4 | $7,077 | $1,769 |
| South Carolina | 21 | $6,571 | $313 |
| South Dakota | 5 | $4,092 | $818 |
| Vermont | 2 | $3,887 | $1,944 |
| Kansas | 6 | $3,817 | $636 |
| Idaho | 4 | $3,282 | $820 |
| Puerto Rico | 6 | $2,868 | $478 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $1,415 | $707 |
| Montana | 6 | $663 | $111 |
| Rhode Island | 4 | $565 | $141 |
| North Dakota | 4 | $456 | $114 |
| Alaska | 1 | $28 | $28 |