School: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $62,946 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 152
- Received a payment
- 152 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $63K
- Average, those paid
- $414
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 school clinicians
Across 12 school clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $172,626 in total — an average of $14,385 each, of which $14,380 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | 22 | $22,682 | $1,031 |
| New York | 23 | $8,223 | $358 |
| California | 23 | $6,067 | $264 |
| Indiana | 1 | $3,836 | $3,836 |
| Delaware | 4 | $2,741 | $685 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | $2,691 | $336 |
| Oregon | 1 | $2,536 | $2,536 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | $1,399 | $175 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $1,389 | $1,389 |
| Texas | 1 | $1,338 | $1,338 |
| South Carolina | 9 | $1,264 | $140 |
| Nebraska | 3 | $1,100 | $367 |
| North Carolina | 2 | $811 | $405 |
| Ohio | 2 | $766 | $383 |
| Connecticut | 2 | $742 | $371 |
| Georgia | 1 | $715 | $715 |
| Michigan | 3 | $651 | $217 |
| New Mexico | 7 | $610 | $87 |
| West Virginia | 4 | $560 | $140 |
| Louisiana | 3 | $463 | $154 |
| Maryland | 3 | $445 | $148 |
| Mississippi | 1 | $397 | $397 |
| Virginia | 2 | $282 | $141 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $279 | $279 |
| Florida | 3 | $268 | $89 |
| Washington | 6 | $261 | $44 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $142 | $142 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $118 | $118 |
| Tennessee | 4 | $114 | $28 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $43 | $43 |
| Colorado | 1 | $15 | $15 |