Pediatric Otolaryngology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $1,950,503 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 616
- Received a payment
- 614 (99.7%)
- Total reported
- $2M
- Average, those paid
- $3,177
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 pediatric otolaryngology clinicians
Across 81 pediatric otolaryngology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $5,034,834 in total — an average of $62,158 each, of which $61,377 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 | 66 | $213,644 | $3,237 |
| Utah | 7 | $188,106 | $26,872 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | $180,974 | $15,081 |
| New Jersey | 13 | $172,235 | $13,249 |
| Florida | 53 | $142,521 | $2,689 |
| Texas | 76 | $128,967 | $1,697 |
| Massachusetts | 13 | $91,930 | $7,072 |
| Iowa | 3 | $90,117 | $30,039 |
| Nebraska | 1 | $86,599 | $86,599 |
| Washington | 16 | $83,839 | $5,240 |
| Illinois | 20 | $72,076 | $3,604 |
| Colorado | 22 | $64,657 | $2,939 |
| New York | 39 | $64,501 | $1,654 |
| Ohio | 42 | $62,673 | $1,492 |
| Indiana | 10 | $37,910 | $3,791 |
| Maryland | 5 | $36,407 | $7,281 |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | $24,090 | $1,721 |
| Missouri | 20 | $22,786 | $1,139 |
| Georgia | 21 | $19,087 | $909 |
| Alabama | 6 | $17,257 | $2,876 |
| Michigan | 19 | $16,833 | $886 |
| Tennessee | 17 | $16,231 | $955 |
| Arizona | 15 | $15,568 | $1,038 |
| District of Columbia | 9 | $15,462 | $1,718 |
| Louisiana | 11 | $14,731 | $1,339 |
| Virginia | 8 | $12,794 | $1,599 |
| South Carolina | 11 | $9,839 | $894 |
| Kentucky | 7 | $9,113 | $1,302 |
| Oregon | 7 | $8,128 | $1,161 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $6,414 | $3,207 |
| Hawaii | 3 | $4,273 | $1,424 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $4,263 | $1,066 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $3,490 | $698 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $3,300 | $825 |
| Connecticut | 10 | $1,975 | $198 |
| Idaho | 1 | $1,881 | $1,881 |
| Minnesota | 5 | $1,393 | $279 |
| North Carolina | 4 | $1,134 | $283 |
| Vermont | 1 | $1,130 | $1,130 |
| Delaware | 7 | $1,073 | $153 |
| Kansas | 3 | $452 | $151 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $324 | $162 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $279 | $279 |
| Maine | 1 | $47 | $47 |