Pediatric Nephrology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $6,197,251 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 733
- Received a payment
- 710 (96.9%)
- Total reported
- $6.2M
- Average, those paid
- $8,729
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 23 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 nephrology clinicians
Across 156 pediatric nephrology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,719,303 in total — an average of $17,431 each, of which $17,431 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 44 | $1,502,167 | $34,140 |
| New Jersey | 11 | $596,959 | $54,269 |
| Arizona | 15 | $505,958 | $33,731 |
| New York | 63 | $425,146 | $6,748 |
| Alabama | 12 | $366,120 | $30,510 |
| California | 75 | $331,139 | $4,415 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | $212,750 | $9,250 |
| Texas | 61 | $210,074 | $3,444 |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | $191,282 | $5,978 |
| North Carolina | 20 | $183,001 | $9,150 |
| Georgia | 13 | $176,487 | $13,576 |
| Missouri | 26 | $170,422 | $6,555 |
| Iowa | 7 | $168,775 | $24,111 |
| Minnesota | 11 | $164,695 | $14,972 |
| Oregon | 7 | $154,263 | $22,038 |
| Colorado | 10 | $123,105 | $12,311 |
| Puerto Rico | 13 | $98,579 | $7,583 |
| Florida | 48 | $96,802 | $2,017 |
| Washington | 21 | $91,517 | $4,358 |
| Illinois | 27 | $84,133 | $3,116 |
| Michigan | 28 | $53,374 | $1,906 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | $43,424 | $4,825 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | $40,931 | $2,924 |
| Utah | 6 | $36,517 | $6,086 |
| West Virginia | 4 | $34,009 | $8,502 |
| Tennessee | 15 | $29,283 | $1,952 |
| Virginia | 14 | $19,893 | $1,421 |
| Louisiana | 8 | $18,658 | $2,332 |
| Delaware | 3 | $13,684 | $4,561 |
| Maryland | 8 | $8,218 | $1,027 |
| Arkansas | 5 | $7,768 | $1,554 |
| Mississippi | 4 | $6,815 | $1,704 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $6,243 | $2,081 |
| Nevada | 5 | $6,148 | $1,230 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $4,876 | $609 |
| Nebraska | 4 | $4,261 | $1,065 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | $2,675 | $446 |
| South Carolina | 11 | $1,690 | $154 |
| Indiana | 14 | $1,566 | $112 |
| Idaho | 4 | $1,366 | $342 |
| Kentucky | 6 | $816 | $136 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $815 | $407 |
| New Mexico | 5 | $318 | $64 |
| Kansas | 1 | $168 | $168 |
| New Hampshire | 3 | $158 | $53 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $83 | $83 |
| Vermont | 1 | $47 | $47 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $45 | $45 |
| Maine | 1 | $30 | $30 |