Psychiatry: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $525,113,442 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 36,282
- Received a payment
- 30,210 (83.3%)
- Total reported
- $525.1M
- Average, those paid
- $17,382
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 6,072 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 psychiatry clinicians
Across 18,625 psychiatry clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $812,443,530 in total — an average of $43,621 each, of which $43,566 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.
What psychiatry clinicians earn
Medicare billing is not pay. For what clinicians in this field actually earn, the U.S. Department of Labor publishes employer-reported wages — median, low end and top 10% — nationally and by state.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 644 | $140,040,858 | $217,455 |
| California | 4,954 | $47,564,206 | $9,601 |
| Texas | 2,238 | $39,716,809 | $17,747 |
| New York | 3,713 | $37,740,200 | $10,164 |
| Florida | 2,059 | $33,810,257 | $16,421 |
| Ohio | 1,119 | $22,476,001 | $20,086 |
| North Carolina | 1,108 | $16,491,265 | $14,884 |
| Pennsylvania | 1,838 | $16,131,584 | $8,777 |
| Missouri | 680 | $14,498,170 | $21,321 |
| Georgia | 900 | $11,756,670 | $13,063 |
| Virginia | 884 | $11,282,277 | $12,763 |
| Tennessee | 503 | $9,459,778 | $18,807 |
| Michigan | 1,166 | $9,330,988 | $8,003 |
| Illinois | 1,344 | $8,977,510 | $6,680 |
| Indiana | 514 | $8,072,299 | $15,705 |
| Kentucky | 348 | $6,514,044 | $18,719 |
| Washington | 576 | $5,625,541 | $9,767 |
| Maryland | 851 | $5,369,322 | $6,309 |
| New Hampshire | 166 | $5,275,296 | $31,779 |
| Massachusetts | 1,431 | $5,163,168 | $3,608 |
| Alabama | 400 | $4,866,937 | $12,167 |
| Mississippi | 219 | $4,738,865 | $21,639 |
| Louisiana | 474 | $4,577,437 | $9,657 |
| West Virginia | 177 | $4,494,450 | $25,392 |
| New Jersey | 1,119 | $4,432,970 | $3,962 |
| South Carolina | 624 | $3,959,326 | $6,345 |
| Wisconsin | 543 | $3,673,527 | $6,765 |
| Arizona | 573 | $3,591,634 | $6,268 |
| Nevada | 243 | $3,502,204 | $14,412 |
| Utah | 231 | $3,070,839 | $13,294 |
| Arkansas | 235 | $3,058,964 | $13,017 |
| South Dakota | 79 | $3,055,940 | $38,683 |
| Rhode Island | 209 | $3,008,907 | $14,397 |
| Oklahoma | 328 | $2,976,418 | $9,074 |
| Kansas | 259 | $2,846,432 | $10,990 |
| Colorado | 559 | $2,750,873 | $4,921 |
| Iowa | 245 | $2,121,819 | $8,660 |
| Nebraska | 160 | $1,951,517 | $12,197 |
| Minnesota | 552 | $1,927,582 | $3,492 |
| New Mexico | 174 | $954,897 | $5,488 |
| Hawaii | 183 | $917,159 | $5,012 |
| District of Columbia | 226 | $810,020 | $3,584 |
| Puerto Rico | 312 | $552,916 | $1,772 |
| Delaware | 114 | $417,018 | $3,658 |
| Montana | 82 | $356,136 | $4,343 |
| Oregon | 366 | $269,628 | $737 |
| Maine | 167 | $265,500 | $1,590 |
| Guam | 3 | $255,253 | $85,084 |
| Alaska | 81 | $142,056 | $1,754 |
| Wyoming | 29 | $112,274 | $3,872 |
| Idaho | 98 | $81,410 | $831 |
| North Dakota | 63 | $62,192 | $987 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 2 | $4,799 | $2,399 |
| Vermont | 96 | $3,964 | $41 |
| AE | 9 | $2,024 | $225 |
| AP | 5 | $596 | $119 |
| FM | 1 | $0 | $0 |