Psychosomatic Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $978,637 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 164
- Received a payment
- 164 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $979K
- Average, those paid
- $5,967
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 psychosomatic medicine clinicians
Across 71 psychosomatic medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $2,323,799 in total — an average of $32,730 each, of which $32,730 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 3 | $466,128 | $155,376 |
| New York | 30 | $311,931 | $10,398 |
| Kansas | 1 | $50,397 | $50,397 |
| New Jersey | 11 | $19,593 | $1,781 |
| California | 22 | $16,834 | $765 |
| Colorado | 5 | $14,222 | $2,844 |
| Iowa | 2 | $13,802 | $6,901 |
| Texas | 7 | $10,643 | $1,520 |
| Florida | 7 | $10,205 | $1,458 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $10,075 | $5,038 |
| Puerto Rico | 3 | $8,016 | $2,672 |
| Michigan | 6 | $7,044 | $1,174 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $5,323 | $5,323 |
| Illinois | 6 | $4,930 | $822 |
| Ohio | 7 | $4,690 | $670 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | $3,876 | $554 |
| Arizona | 4 | $3,639 | $910 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $3,528 | $3,528 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $2,096 | $2,096 |
| Virginia | 3 | $1,951 | $650 |
| South Carolina | 3 | $1,555 | $518 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $1,415 | $708 |
| Connecticut | 5 | $1,368 | $274 |
| District of Columbia | 3 | $1,271 | $424 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $856 | $856 |
| Georgia | 3 | $713 | $238 |
| Missouri | 1 | $475 | $475 |
| Maryland | 4 | $470 | $117 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $442 | $88 |
| North Carolina | 3 | $299 | $100 |
| Idaho | 1 | $297 | $297 |
| Alabama | 2 | $259 | $130 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $201 | $201 |
| Washington | 1 | $93 | $93 |