Procedural Dermatology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $22,121,328 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 542
- Received a payment
- 541 (99.8%)
- Total reported
- $22.1M
- Average, those paid
- $40,890
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 procedural dermatology clinicians
Across 358 procedural dermatology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $160,865,951 in total — an average of $449,346 each, of which $408,266 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 | 108 | $9,623,798 | $89,109 |
| New York | 69 | $3,101,175 | $44,945 |
| Arizona | 14 | $1,344,035 | $96,003 |
| Maryland | 18 | $1,337,445 | $74,303 |
| Florida | 60 | $1,032,413 | $17,207 |
| Delaware | 3 | $784,325 | $261,442 |
| Illinois | 13 | $700,628 | $53,894 |
| North Carolina | 8 | $635,041 | $79,380 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $486,979 | $162,326 |
| Michigan | 10 | $483,494 | $48,349 |
| Virginia | 14 | $421,091 | $30,078 |
| Texas | 25 | $347,668 | $13,907 |
| Georgia | 13 | $314,912 | $24,224 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $314,493 | $39,312 |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | $306,622 | $11,793 |
| Louisiana | 15 | $201,042 | $13,403 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $173,649 | $57,883 |
| Colorado | 5 | $59,145 | $11,829 |
| Kentucky | 5 | $58,558 | $11,712 |
| Ohio | 15 | $58,357 | $3,890 |
| New Jersey | 22 | $56,906 | $2,587 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $51,958 | $10,392 |
| Alabama | 6 | $37,393 | $6,232 |
| Massachusetts | 10 | $25,610 | $2,561 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | $19,284 | $2,755 |
| Indiana | 3 | $17,775 | $5,925 |
| Washington | 6 | $16,165 | $2,694 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $14,002 | $4,667 |
| Arkansas | 4 | $13,869 | $3,467 |
| Tennessee | 6 | $13,020 | $2,170 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $12,799 | $12,799 |
| Oregon | 4 | $10,742 | $2,686 |
| Utah | 10 | $9,029 | $903 |
| Puerto Rico | 4 | $8,449 | $2,112 |
| Nevada | 3 | $7,434 | $2,478 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $6,838 | $1,710 |
| Missouri | 1 | $5,539 | $5,539 |
| West Virginia | 2 | $5,364 | $2,682 |
| Kansas | 1 | $1,497 | $1,497 |
| Idaho | 1 | $1,363 | $1,363 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $566 | $566 |
| Iowa | 1 | $482 | $482 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 1 | $195 | $195 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $179 | $179 |