Rehabilitation: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $67,615 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 294
- Received a payment
- 293 (99.7%)
- Total reported
- $68K
- Average, those paid
- $231
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 1 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 rehabilitation clinicians
Across 68 rehabilitation clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,493,261 in total — an average of $21,960 each, of which $21,807 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 | 107 | $13,218 | $124 |
| Utah | 2 | $11,465 | $5,732 |
| California | 33 | $11,100 | $336 |
| Illinois | 12 | $6,185 | $515 |
| Arizona | 8 | $3,985 | $498 |
| Ohio | 12 | $3,917 | $326 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $3,002 | $1,001 |
| New Jersey | 15 | $2,782 | $185 |
| Virginia | 10 | $2,276 | $228 |
| New York | 11 | $2,082 | $189 |
| Nevada | 4 | $1,031 | $258 |
| Colorado | 7 | $983 | $140 |
| Pennsylvania | 10 | $872 | $87 |
| Florida | 10 | $807 | $81 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $711 | $711 |
| Washington | 10 | $672 | $67 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $553 | $276 |
| Georgia | 11 | $540 | $49 |
| Delaware | 4 | $264 | $66 |
| Oregon | 3 | $214 | $71 |
| Maryland | 5 | $173 | $35 |
| Minnesota | 3 | $152 | $51 |
| Tennessee | 2 | $116 | $58 |
| Wisconsin | 1 | $103 | $103 |
| Indiana | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $93 | $93 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $76 | $76 |
| Kansas | 1 | $41 | $41 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $37 | $37 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $36 | $36 |
| Alabama | 1 | $17 | $17 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $14 | $14 |