Pediatric Pathology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $208,583 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 72
- Received a payment
- 72 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $209K
- Average, those paid
- $2,897
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 0 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 pathology clinicians
Across 10 pediatric pathology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $382,166 in total — an average of $38,217 each, of which $38,217 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 | 16 | $143,654 | $8,978 |
| Washington | 6 | $22,945 | $3,824 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $16,500 | $16,500 |
| Colorado | 5 | $7,623 | $1,525 |
| Arizona | 6 | $7,122 | $1,187 |
| California | 5 | $4,245 | $849 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | $2,810 | $468 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $1,520 | $1,520 |
| Texas | 7 | $584 | $83 |
| Missouri | 3 | $544 | $181 |
| Florida | 3 | $207 | $69 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $204 | $204 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $177 | $177 |
| Delaware | 2 | $145 | $73 |
| Virginia | 3 | $104 | $35 |
| Alabama | 2 | $94 | $47 |
| Illinois | 2 | $60 | $30 |
| New York | 1 | $32 | $32 |
| Georgia | 1 | $13 | $13 |