Phlebology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $844,175 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 117
- Received a payment
- 116 (99.1%)
- Total reported
- $844K
- Average, those paid
- $7,277
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 phlebology clinicians
Across 90 phlebology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $26,257,413 in total — an average of $291,749 each, of which $290,806 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 17 | $274,792 | $16,164 |
| California | 11 | $177,627 | $16,148 |
| Texas | 6 | $77,114 | $12,852 |
| Indiana | 1 | $48,294 | $48,294 |
| North Carolina | 4 | $46,071 | $11,518 |
| Idaho | 1 | $34,339 | $34,339 |
| Florida | 14 | $31,280 | $2,234 |
| Maryland | 4 | $27,178 | $6,795 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $21,778 | $10,889 |
| Arizona | 5 | $19,056 | $3,811 |
| Missouri | 5 | $17,056 | $3,411 |
| Pennsylvania | 2 | $12,552 | $6,276 |
| New Mexico | 5 | $8,084 | $1,617 |
| Tennessee | 4 | $7,946 | $1,986 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $6,590 | $1,318 |
| New York | 4 | $6,380 | $1,595 |
| Massachusetts | 2 | $6,297 | $3,149 |
| Ohio | 6 | $3,958 | $660 |
| Maine | 1 | $3,496 | $3,496 |
| Washington | 2 | $3,209 | $1,604 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $2,961 | $2,961 |
| Nevada | 3 | $1,957 | $652 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $1,360 | $453 |
| Oregon | 1 | $1,252 | $1,252 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $1,183 | $1,183 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $955 | $955 |
| Alaska | 1 | $775 | $775 |
| Michigan | 1 | $279 | $279 |
| Colorado | 1 | $215 | $215 |
| Kansas | 2 | $123 | $62 |
| Georgia | 1 | $19 | $19 |