Pediatric Dentistry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $7,237,676 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 6,958
- Received a payment
- 6,954 (99.9%)
- Total reported
- $7.2M
- Average, those paid
- $1,041
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 4 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 dentistry clinicians
Across 1 pediatric dentistry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,376 in total — an average of $1,376 each, of which $1,376 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 193 | $1,338,794 | $6,937 |
| California | 820 | $828,687 | $1,011 |
| Texas | 720 | $724,734 | $1,007 |
| New York | 607 | $464,372 | $765 |
| Florida | 472 | $353,595 | $749 |
| Nevada | 67 | $333,578 | $4,979 |
| Arizona | 169 | $310,824 | $1,839 |
| Colorado | 159 | $275,139 | $1,730 |
| Washington | 171 | $247,621 | $1,448 |
| Tennessee | 155 | $230,011 | $1,484 |
| Utah | 108 | $214,939 | $1,990 |
| Georgia | 211 | $160,817 | $762 |
| Indiana | 113 | $159,884 | $1,415 |
| Pennsylvania | 274 | $154,585 | $564 |
| Illinois | 161 | $143,714 | $893 |
| Kentucky | 104 | $136,888 | $1,316 |
| Massachusetts | 201 | $126,743 | $631 |
| Ohio | 199 | $107,574 | $541 |
| New Jersey | 255 | $83,613 | $328 |
| Virginia | 203 | $83,342 | $411 |
| Maryland | 175 | $72,315 | $413 |
| South Carolina | 94 | $58,052 | $618 |
| Iowa | 43 | $53,466 | $1,243 |
| Missouri | 85 | $52,658 | $620 |
| Minnesota | 69 | $47,723 | $692 |
| Kansas | 36 | $40,895 | $1,136 |
| Mississippi | 53 | $40,894 | $772 |
| Michigan | 108 | $35,927 | $333 |
| Idaho | 42 | $34,443 | $820 |
| Wisconsin | 81 | $33,902 | $419 |
| Oregon | 98 | $31,331 | $320 |
| Nebraska | 39 | $30,188 | $774 |
| Hawaii | 47 | $29,057 | $618 |
| Connecticut | 101 | $25,986 | $257 |
| Alabama | 90 | $23,810 | $265 |
| Oklahoma | 50 | $20,937 | $419 |
| Louisiana | 89 | $20,078 | $226 |
| Arkansas | 49 | $15,181 | $310 |
| Delaware | 17 | $14,176 | $834 |
| Montana | 25 | $11,519 | $461 |
| New Hampshire | 32 | $11,347 | $355 |
| New Mexico | 19 | $10,107 | $532 |
| Maine | 18 | $8,651 | $481 |
| Alaska | 11 | $7,412 | $674 |
| Wyoming | 9 | $6,850 | $761 |
| North Dakota | 9 | $4,572 | $508 |
| Puerto Rico | 24 | $3,775 | $157 |
| District of Columbia | 23 | $3,740 | $163 |
| Vermont | 1 | $3,143 | $3,143 |
| Rhode Island | 21 | $3,014 | $144 |
| West Virginia | 15 | $1,588 | $106 |
| South Dakota | 12 | $771 | $64 |
| AE | 4 | $278 | $69 |
| AP | 2 | $36 | $18 |