Sports Vision: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $61,162 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 26
- Received a payment
- 26 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $61K
- Average, those paid
- $2,352
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 sports vision clinicians
Across 12 sports vision clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $409,848 in total — an average of $34,154 each, of which $34,154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 1 | $44,738 | $44,738 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $7,061 | $7,061 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $2,090 | $2,090 |
| Nebraska | 2 | $1,705 | $853 |
| California | 3 | $1,098 | $366 |
| Texas | 3 | $907 | $302 |
| New York | 2 | $692 | $346 |
| Florida | 1 | $666 | $666 |
| Colorado | 1 | $571 | $571 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $543 | $543 |
| Illinois | 1 | $219 | $219 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $190 | $190 |
| South Carolina | 1 | $189 | $189 |
| Ohio | 1 | $179 | $179 |
| Pennsylvania | 1 | $100 | $100 |
| Indiana | 1 | $75 | $75 |
| Michigan | 1 | $53 | $53 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $45 | $45 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $27 | $27 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $13 | $13 |