Psychiatric/Mental Health: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $104,078,079 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 36,755
- Received a payment
- 36,746 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $104.1M
- Average, those paid
- $2,832
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 9 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 psychiatric/mental health clinicians
Across 13,560 psychiatric/mental health clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $443,772,875 in total — an average of $32,727 each, of which $31,658 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 3,096 | $9,230,266 | $2,981 |
| Texas | 2,724 | $7,921,581 | $2,908 |
| New York | 2,385 | $5,808,782 | $2,436 |
| Ohio | 1,808 | $5,414,885 | $2,995 |
| Tennessee | 1,167 | $5,397,928 | $4,625 |
| California | 2,433 | $5,344,496 | $2,197 |
| Oregon | 540 | $4,505,082 | $8,343 |
| Kentucky | 946 | $4,455,521 | $4,710 |
| North Carolina | 947 | $3,558,129 | $3,757 |
| Louisiana | 615 | $3,507,468 | $5,703 |
| Colorado | 873 | $3,462,443 | $3,966 |
| Indiana | 729 | $3,317,415 | $4,551 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,041 | $3,109,864 | $2,987 |
| Arizona | 1,230 | $3,082,927 | $2,506 |
| Maryland | 1,461 | $2,968,169 | $2,032 |
| Illinois | 922 | $2,596,918 | $2,817 |
| New Jersey | 1,212 | $2,596,309 | $2,142 |
| Missouri | 565 | $2,432,384 | $4,305 |
| Georgia | 900 | $2,098,126 | $2,331 |
| Virginia | 1,003 | $1,898,424 | $1,893 |
| West Virginia | 142 | $1,879,116 | $13,233 |
| Iowa | 443 | $1,624,698 | $3,667 |
| Massachusetts | 1,284 | $1,529,425 | $1,191 |
| Michigan | 638 | $1,474,104 | $2,311 |
| Connecticut | 679 | $1,194,358 | $1,759 |
| Mississippi | 486 | $1,139,850 | $2,345 |
| Alabama | 378 | $1,107,220 | $2,929 |
| Kansas | 404 | $1,104,179 | $2,733 |
| Washington | 931 | $1,089,825 | $1,171 |
| Utah | 393 | $1,049,282 | $2,670 |
| Rhode Island | 196 | $955,913 | $4,877 |
| South Carolina | 354 | $883,810 | $2,497 |
| Nevada | 362 | $756,616 | $2,090 |
| New Hampshire | 264 | $694,039 | $2,629 |
| Arkansas | 359 | $627,670 | $1,748 |
| Nebraska | 255 | $604,536 | $2,371 |
| Wisconsin | 384 | $560,892 | $1,461 |
| Oklahoma | 231 | $519,358 | $2,248 |
| Idaho | 221 | $479,383 | $2,169 |
| District of Columbia | 137 | $461,570 | $3,369 |
| Delaware | 177 | $344,065 | $1,944 |
| New Mexico | 228 | $245,559 | $1,077 |
| South Dakota | 77 | $229,085 | $2,975 |
| Hawaii | 103 | $187,296 | $1,818 |
| Maine | 192 | $180,225 | $939 |
| Minnesota | 407 | $138,860 | $341 |
| Alaska | 104 | $113,693 | $1,093 |
| Wyoming | 76 | $87,517 | $1,152 |
| North Dakota | 92 | $52,976 | $576 |
| Montana | 142 | $51,839 | $365 |
| Vermont | 14 | $2,387 | $171 |
| XX | 1 | $899 | $899 |
| AE | 2 | $668 | $334 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $29 | $29 |