Psychiatric/Mental Health, Child & Family: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $76,869 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 38
- Received a payment
- 38 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $77K
- Average, those paid
- $2,023
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 0 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, child & family clinicians
Across 8 psychiatric/mental health, child & family clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $238,507 in total — an average of $29,813 each, of which $29,813 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri | 3 | $19,245 | $6,415 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | $17,562 | $1,464 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $13,589 | $6,794 |
| California | 1 | $6,131 | $6,131 |
| Ohio | 2 | $5,779 | $2,889 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $3,443 | $3,443 |
| New Jersey | 2 | $2,833 | $1,417 |
| Florida | 1 | $1,804 | $1,804 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $1,315 | $1,315 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $1,006 | $1,006 |
| Georgia | 1 | $969 | $969 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $717 | $717 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $635 | $635 |
| Arizona | 1 | $540 | $540 |
| Maryland | 1 | $376 | $376 |
| Texas | 2 | $296 | $148 |
| Illinois | 1 | $246 | $246 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $225 | $112 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $105 | $105 |
| New York | 1 | $54 | $54 |