Sports Medicine: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $316,515,785 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 6,291
- Received a payment
- 6,059 (96.3%)
- Total reported
- $316.5M
- Average, those paid
- $52,239
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 232 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 sports medicine clinicians
Across 4,952 sports medicine clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $636,139,456 in total — an average of $128,461 each, of which $105,664 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 662 | $86,521,147 | $130,697 |
| Colorado | 196 | $35,959,977 | $183,469 |
| Illinois | 233 | $33,224,902 | $142,596 |
| Florida | 402 | $21,084,049 | $52,448 |
| Virginia | 171 | $18,845,948 | $110,210 |
| New York | 403 | $16,549,672 | $41,066 |
| Texas | 437 | $14,969,729 | $34,256 |
| Alabama | 108 | $14,125,745 | $130,794 |
| Utah | 83 | $6,129,538 | $73,850 |
| Georgia | 168 | $6,006,550 | $35,753 |
| South Carolina | 158 | $5,122,551 | $32,421 |
| Ohio | 278 | $5,109,141 | $18,378 |
| Pennsylvania | 311 | $4,710,885 | $15,148 |
| Maryland | 111 | $4,596,518 | $41,410 |
| Arizona | 152 | $4,117,930 | $27,092 |
| New Jersey | 221 | $3,717,651 | $16,822 |
| Louisiana | 82 | $3,676,711 | $44,838 |
| Massachusetts | 138 | $2,943,417 | $21,329 |
| Connecticut | 65 | $2,839,637 | $43,687 |
| Rhode Island | 28 | $2,443,824 | $87,279 |
| Tennessee | 147 | $2,298,111 | $15,633 |
| Minnesota | 156 | $2,198,317 | $14,092 |
| Indiana | 156 | $1,837,010 | $11,776 |
| North Carolina | 158 | $1,821,397 | $11,528 |
| Kansas | 56 | $1,579,780 | $28,210 |
| Iowa | 33 | $1,557,603 | $47,200 |
| Missouri | 127 | $1,450,947 | $11,425 |
| Kentucky | 59 | $1,254,350 | $21,260 |
| Wisconsin | 93 | $1,196,900 | $12,870 |
| Washington | 132 | $1,157,862 | $8,772 |
| Michigan | 145 | $1,073,373 | $7,403 |
| Oregon | 76 | $1,062,252 | $13,977 |
| Nevada | 49 | $730,775 | $14,914 |
| New Hampshire | 38 | $667,380 | $17,563 |
| Hawaii | 31 | $643,470 | $20,757 |
| Maine | 42 | $635,318 | $15,127 |
| District of Columbia | 20 | $347,977 | $17,399 |
| Oklahoma | 55 | $299,804 | $5,451 |
| Arkansas | 30 | $270,653 | $9,022 |
| Nebraska | 34 | $235,434 | $6,925 |
| Montana | 23 | $208,927 | $9,084 |
| New Mexico | 30 | $203,327 | $6,778 |
| Puerto Rico | 27 | $183,478 | $6,795 |
| Delaware | 14 | $131,832 | $9,417 |
| West Virginia | 25 | $127,621 | $5,105 |
| Idaho | 33 | $113,928 | $3,452 |
| North Dakota | 15 | $110,857 | $7,390 |
| Mississippi | 33 | $105,817 | $3,207 |
| Vermont | 8 | $71,411 | $8,926 |
| Alaska | 14 | $67,610 | $4,829 |
| Wyoming | 5 | $63,617 | $12,723 |
| South Dakota | 11 | $50,301 | $4,573 |
| AP | 1 | $31,424 | $31,424 |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | 2 | $1,650 | $825 |
| AE | 2 | $112 | $56 |