Prosthodontics: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $27,220,586 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 2,803
- Received a payment
- 2,796 (99.8%)
- Total reported
- $27.2M
- Average, those paid
- $9,736
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 7 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 prosthodontics clinicians
Across 38 prosthodontics clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,006,067 in total — an average of $26,475 each, of which $26,475 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 | 337 | $5,078,904 | $15,071 |
| Washington | 64 | $2,593,867 | $40,529 |
| New York | 343 | $2,188,282 | $6,380 |
| Massachusetts | 197 | $1,779,475 | $9,033 |
| New Jersey | 110 | $1,562,055 | $14,201 |
| Florida | 212 | $1,186,876 | $5,598 |
| Illinois | 59 | $1,177,396 | $19,956 |
| Texas | 245 | $1,055,271 | $4,307 |
| North Carolina | 72 | $1,018,945 | $14,152 |
| Arizona | 43 | $974,034 | $22,652 |
| Virginia | 86 | $738,709 | $8,590 |
| Ohio | 58 | $700,555 | $12,079 |
| Tennessee | 33 | $680,516 | $20,622 |
| Mississippi | 8 | $556,075 | $69,509 |
| Louisiana | 31 | $508,870 | $16,415 |
| Pennsylvania | 103 | $383,158 | $3,720 |
| Oregon | 18 | $382,012 | $21,223 |
| Iowa | 35 | $369,630 | $10,561 |
| Georgia | 78 | $367,975 | $4,718 |
| Utah | 11 | $364,450 | $33,132 |
| Colorado | 43 | $343,487 | $7,988 |
| Missouri | 22 | $337,500 | $15,341 |
| Arkansas | 14 | $276,678 | $19,763 |
| South Carolina | 31 | $271,190 | $8,748 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | $239,010 | $14,938 |
| Maine | 13 | $220,675 | $16,975 |
| Kentucky | 17 | $208,584 | $12,270 |
| West Virginia | 4 | $202,518 | $50,630 |
| Wisconsin | 41 | $199,606 | $4,868 |
| Connecticut | 46 | $189,794 | $4,126 |
| Maryland | 76 | $183,878 | $2,419 |
| Idaho | 5 | $160,539 | $32,108 |
| Indiana | 32 | $130,674 | $4,084 |
| Michigan | 47 | $87,348 | $1,858 |
| Minnesota | 50 | $85,173 | $1,703 |
| AE | 5 | $73,747 | $14,749 |
| New Mexico | 10 | $56,247 | $5,625 |
| Puerto Rico | 43 | $47,608 | $1,107 |
| Kansas | 11 | $42,208 | $3,837 |
| Nevada | 16 | $29,996 | $1,875 |
| AP | 2 | $29,250 | $14,625 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | $27,867 | $4,645 |
| Alabama | 29 | $26,575 | $916 |
| Montana | 4 | $24,646 | $6,162 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | $14,609 | $1,328 |
| Hawaii | 25 | $12,131 | $485 |
| New Hampshire | 11 | $9,521 | $866 |
| Nebraska | 12 | $9,433 | $786 |
| Alaska | 5 | $8,467 | $1,693 |
| Delaware | 2 | $2,419 | $1,210 |
| North Dakota | 3 | $732 | $244 |
| Vermont | 1 | $204 | $204 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $82 | $82 |