Pediatric Pulmonology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $6,474,999 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,139
- Received a payment
- 1,100 (96.6%)
- Total reported
- $6.5M
- Average, those paid
- $5,886
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 39 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 pulmonology clinicians
Across 39 pediatric pulmonology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,185,345 in total — an average of $30,393 each, of which $30,393 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 72 | $885,308 | $12,296 |
| Pennsylvania | 54 | $759,377 | $14,063 |
| Texas | 104 | $627,018 | $6,029 |
| Colorado | 29 | $447,418 | $15,428 |
| California | 99 | $431,019 | $4,354 |
| Ohio | 68 | $408,183 | $6,003 |
| New York | 102 | $397,491 | $3,897 |
| Massachusetts | 40 | $389,989 | $9,750 |
| Virginia | 23 | $263,159 | $11,442 |
| Nevada | 6 | $237,170 | $39,528 |
| New Mexico | 8 | $193,975 | $24,247 |
| Washington | 24 | $164,152 | $6,840 |
| Tennessee | 23 | $161,555 | $7,024 |
| Kentucky | 12 | $111,073 | $9,256 |
| Missouri | 36 | $104,988 | $2,916 |
| North Carolina | 37 | $97,451 | $2,634 |
| Illinois | 28 | $88,647 | $3,166 |
| Georgia | 24 | $85,881 | $3,578 |
| New Jersey | 47 | $78,920 | $1,679 |
| Alaska | 3 | $71,015 | $23,672 |
| Indiana | 32 | $69,362 | $2,168 |
| Arizona | 20 | $67,168 | $3,358 |
| Michigan | 28 | $57,882 | $2,067 |
| Wisconsin | 16 | $31,594 | $1,975 |
| Louisiana | 21 | $31,409 | $1,496 |
| South Carolina | 12 | $26,097 | $2,175 |
| Alabama | 15 | $23,763 | $1,584 |
| Minnesota | 19 | $23,074 | $1,214 |
| Connecticut | 14 | $22,557 | $1,611 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | $21,617 | $3,088 |
| Puerto Rico | 18 | $20,846 | $1,158 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | $14,423 | $901 |
| Nebraska | 7 | $10,709 | $1,530 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $9,207 | $3,069 |
| West Virginia | 6 | $9,095 | $1,516 |
| Delaware | 8 | $8,240 | $1,030 |
| Maryland | 13 | $6,226 | $479 |
| South Dakota | 6 | $4,496 | $749 |
| Arkansas | 6 | $4,374 | $729 |
| Iowa | 4 | $3,125 | $781 |
| Idaho | 2 | $2,431 | $1,215 |
| Utah | 4 | $1,806 | $451 |
| Oregon | 6 | $404 | $67 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $325 | $81 |
| Maine | 3 | $249 | $83 |
| Kansas | 1 | $209 | $209 |
| Montana | 1 | $136 | $136 |
| Rhode Island | 2 | $136 | $68 |
| Vermont | 4 | $135 | $34 |
| New Hampshire | 2 | $112 | $56 |