Psychiatric/Mental Health, Geropsychiatric: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $15,793 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 15
- Received a payment
- 15 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $16K
- Average, those paid
- $1,053
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, geropsychiatric clinicians
Across 5 psychiatric/mental health, geropsychiatric clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $282,706 in total — an average of $56,541 each, of which $56,541 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1 | $5,085 | $5,085 |
| Virginia | 1 | $2,767 | $2,767 |
| Maryland | 1 | $1,700 | $1,700 |
| Ohio | 2 | $1,602 | $801 |
| Nevada | 1 | $1,314 | $1,314 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $1,122 | $1,122 |
| Arizona | 1 | $980 | $980 |
| Georgia | 4 | $615 | $154 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $233 | $233 |
| California | 1 | $213 | $213 |
| Iowa | 1 | $162 | $162 |