Periodontics: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $26,373,918 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 5,080
- Received a payment
- 5,075 (99.9%)
- Total reported
- $26.4M
- Average, those paid
- $5,197
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 5 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 periodontics clinicians
Across 11 periodontics clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $999,700 in total — an average of $90,882 each, of which $90,882 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 | 716 | $3,982,840 | $5,563 |
| Texas | 403 | $3,831,036 | $9,506 |
| New York | 457 | $2,467,531 | $5,399 |
| Florida | 412 | $2,415,136 | $5,862 |
| Michigan | 130 | $1,645,828 | $12,660 |
| Massachusetts | 243 | $1,414,723 | $5,822 |
| Pennsylvania | 194 | $1,216,600 | $6,271 |
| Illinois | 172 | $864,777 | $5,028 |
| Kentucky | 57 | $783,274 | $13,742 |
| Virginia | 160 | $753,185 | $4,707 |
| Maryland | 126 | $707,357 | $5,614 |
| Connecticut | 71 | $619,438 | $8,724 |
| New Jersey | 223 | $618,716 | $2,775 |
| Washington | 134 | $458,783 | $3,424 |
| Georgia | 135 | $440,901 | $3,266 |
| Colorado | 111 | $438,771 | $3,953 |
| North Carolina | 118 | $420,322 | $3,562 |
| South Carolina | 68 | $416,404 | $6,124 |
| Ohio | 139 | $351,325 | $2,528 |
| Oklahoma | 33 | $286,238 | $8,674 |
| Nevada | 38 | $273,734 | $7,204 |
| Oregon | 52 | $232,703 | $4,475 |
| Minnesota | 60 | $213,296 | $3,555 |
| Arizona | 99 | $191,566 | $1,935 |
| Alabama | 40 | $149,210 | $3,730 |
| Tennessee | 58 | $114,358 | $1,972 |
| Utah | 34 | $105,115 | $3,092 |
| Kansas | 35 | $100,267 | $2,865 |
| New Hampshire | 33 | $85,029 | $2,577 |
| Nebraska | 20 | $84,787 | $4,239 |
| Wisconsin | 53 | $82,139 | $1,550 |
| Indiana | 54 | $67,363 | $1,247 |
| Louisiana | 46 | $62,195 | $1,352 |
| Missouri | 54 | $55,149 | $1,021 |
| Puerto Rico | 44 | $39,819 | $905 |
| Arkansas | 18 | $36,691 | $2,038 |
| District of Columbia | 18 | $31,924 | $1,774 |
| Hawaii | 26 | $30,488 | $1,173 |
| Iowa | 35 | $29,240 | $835 |
| Mississippi | 17 | $28,098 | $1,653 |
| Montana | 10 | $27,777 | $2,778 |
| New Mexico | 14 | $26,188 | $1,871 |
| Idaho | 14 | $22,725 | $1,623 |
| Maine | 18 | $20,830 | $1,157 |
| Rhode Island | 18 | $17,208 | $956 |
| Delaware | 12 | $14,770 | $1,231 |
| South Dakota | 6 | $12,058 | $2,010 |
| West Virginia | 12 | $11,826 | $986 |
| Vermont | 5 | $9,798 | $1,960 |
| AA | 2 | $3,768 | $1,884 |
| Alaska | 6 | $3,695 | $616 |
| AP | 8 | $3,240 | $405 |
| North Dakota | 3 | $2,653 | $884 |
| AE | 7 | $2,395 | $342 |
| Wyoming | 3 | $2,015 | $672 |
| Guam | 1 | $22 | $22 |