Sports Physician: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $37,877 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 195
- Received a payment
- 192 (98.5%)
- Total reported
- $38K
- Average, those paid
- $197
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 3 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 physician clinicians
Across 77 sports physician clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $1,801,598 in total — an average of $23,397 each, of which $23,397 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 | 30 | $9,308 | $310 |
| New Jersey | 17 | $6,766 | $398 |
| Texas | 26 | $5,064 | $195 |
| New York | 22 | $3,978 | $181 |
| Ohio | 12 | $2,483 | $207 |
| Arizona | 7 | $1,686 | $241 |
| Illinois | 10 | $1,497 | $150 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | $1,231 | $205 |
| Georgia | 8 | $1,122 | $140 |
| Oregon | 7 | $1,034 | $148 |
| Florida | 9 | $767 | $85 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $500 | $500 |
| Massachusetts | 2 | $288 | $144 |
| Maryland | 2 | $264 | $132 |
| Virginia | 3 | $253 | $84 |
| Colorado | 6 | $233 | $39 |
| Oklahoma | 2 | $229 | $114 |
| Connecticut | 4 | $228 | $57 |
| Utah | 2 | $206 | $103 |
| Washington | 2 | $188 | $94 |
| North Carolina | 3 | $177 | $59 |
| Delaware | 1 | $75 | $75 |
| Wisconsin | 2 | $50 | $25 |
| Iowa | 1 | $46 | $46 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $41 | $20 |
| Wyoming | 1 | $33 | $33 |
| Michigan | 2 | $31 | $15 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $26 | $26 |
| Idaho | 1 | $22 | $22 |
| Alaska | 1 | $20 | $20 |
| Missouri | 1 | $17 | $17 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $11 | $11 |