Perioperative: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $8,602 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 21
- Received a payment
- 21 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $9K
- Average, those paid
- $410
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 perioperative clinicians
Across 1 perioperative clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,611,910 in total — an average of $3,611,910 each, of which $78,926 was for services and the rest for drugs administered in the office.
This is not a salary. 98% of this figure is the cost of drugs administered in the office — chemotherapy, infusions and injections that Part B pays for and the practice has already bought. That money passes through; it is not earnings. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | $3,201 | $640 |
| California | 2 | $2,219 | $1,110 |
| Ohio | 2 | $1,116 | $558 |
| Florida | 3 | $731 | $244 |
| Arizona | 2 | $467 | $234 |
| Colorado | 2 | $371 | $186 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $318 | $318 |
| Indiana | 1 | $97 | $97 |
| Texas | 1 | $35 | $35 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $26 | $26 |
| Illinois | 1 | $21 | $21 |