Plastic Surgery within the Head & Neck: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $142,444,801 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 695
- Received a payment
- 692 (99.6%)
- Total reported
- $142.4M
- Average, those paid
- $205,845
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians
Across 411 plastic surgery within the head & neck clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $56,921,330 in total — an average of $138,495 each, of which $134,742 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 | 119 | $137,413,193 | $1,154,733 |
| Missouri | 8 | $621,921 | $77,740 |
| Texas | 50 | $592,309 | $11,846 |
| Florida | 50 | $488,834 | $9,777 |
| Alaska | 2 | $415,636 | $207,818 |
| New York | 45 | $389,448 | $8,654 |
| Georgia | 24 | $368,737 | $15,364 |
| New Jersey | 19 | $297,105 | $15,637 |
| Illinois | 19 | $264,925 | $13,943 |
| Louisiana | 13 | $244,869 | $18,836 |
| Alabama | 9 | $161,034 | $17,893 |
| Tennessee | 15 | $161,006 | $10,734 |
| Indiana | 7 | $138,948 | $19,850 |
| Washington | 21 | $128,972 | $6,142 |
| Kansas | 7 | $113,506 | $16,215 |
| Colorado | 23 | $83,305 | $3,622 |
| North Carolina | 16 | $74,484 | $4,655 |
| Michigan | 27 | $59,532 | $2,205 |
| Arizona | 26 | $58,387 | $2,246 |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | $49,812 | $2,491 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | $42,613 | $4,261 |
| Virginia | 11 | $32,703 | $2,973 |
| South Carolina | 10 | $22,911 | $2,291 |
| Arkansas | 10 | $22,260 | $2,226 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $20,225 | $20,225 |
| Maryland | 9 | $19,870 | $2,208 |
| Utah | 12 | $15,587 | $1,299 |
| Kentucky | 4 | $15,351 | $3,838 |
| Ohio | 19 | $13,580 | $715 |
| Nevada | 6 | $13,476 | $2,246 |
| Oregon | 9 | $13,402 | $1,489 |
| District of Columbia | 2 | $11,856 | $5,928 |
| Mississippi | 6 | $10,335 | $1,723 |
| Nebraska | 9 | $9,763 | $1,085 |
| Puerto Rico | 13 | $9,487 | $730 |
| Iowa | 5 | $9,372 | $1,874 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $7,819 | $2,606 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $6,465 | $6,465 |
| Montana | 2 | $4,339 | $2,170 |
| Delaware | 4 | $4,072 | $1,018 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $3,643 | $729 |
| Minnesota | 9 | $3,245 | $361 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | $2,470 | $494 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $2,350 | $1,175 |
| Idaho | 4 | $768 | $192 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $670 | $670 |
| Maine | 3 | $204 | $68 |