Surgical Oncology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $28,572,533 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,717
- Received a payment
- 1,638 (95.4%)
- Total reported
- $28.6M
- Average, those paid
- $17,444
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 79 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 surgical oncology clinicians
Across 1,368 surgical oncology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $122,933,066 in total — an average of $89,863 each, of which $84,375 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 | 29 | $11,513,173 | $397,006 |
| California | 209 | $2,650,506 | $12,682 |
| Texas | 191 | $2,291,338 | $11,997 |
| Florida | 133 | $1,682,058 | $12,647 |
| District of Columbia | 13 | $923,969 | $71,075 |
| New York | 173 | $888,948 | $5,138 |
| Kansas | 7 | $745,362 | $106,480 |
| Illinois | 55 | $694,847 | $12,634 |
| Colorado | 25 | $666,361 | $26,654 |
| Virginia | 28 | $611,174 | $21,828 |
| Kentucky | 29 | $593,676 | $20,472 |
| Rhode Island | 9 | $542,872 | $60,319 |
| Massachusetts | 55 | $421,676 | $7,667 |
| Washington | 31 | $336,887 | $10,867 |
| Missouri | 24 | $325,809 | $13,575 |
| Tennessee | 53 | $296,999 | $5,604 |
| Louisiana | 26 | $291,054 | $11,194 |
| Pennsylvania | 78 | $271,744 | $3,484 |
| Minnesota | 15 | $257,855 | $17,190 |
| Ohio | 69 | $256,446 | $3,717 |
| Connecticut | 30 | $217,721 | $7,257 |
| Nevada | 7 | $215,789 | $30,827 |
| Georgia | 43 | $212,323 | $4,938 |
| New Mexico | 5 | $206,800 | $41,360 |
| North Carolina | 34 | $197,640 | $5,813 |
| New Jersey | 59 | $193,929 | $3,287 |
| South Carolina | 18 | $134,324 | $7,462 |
| Michigan | 28 | $129,174 | $4,613 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | $112,754 | $2,819 |
| Alabama | 26 | $104,844 | $4,032 |
| Nebraska | 12 | $96,873 | $8,073 |
| Montana | 4 | $79,527 | $19,882 |
| Maryland | 40 | $74,236 | $1,856 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | $57,600 | $5,236 |
| Arkansas | 11 | $50,831 | $4,621 |
| Oregon | 14 | $49,035 | $3,503 |
| Indiana | 19 | $37,469 | $1,972 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $19,615 | $6,538 |
| Puerto Rico | 11 | $16,679 | $1,516 |
| Alaska | 2 | $15,515 | $7,757 |
| West Virginia | 4 | $15,034 | $3,758 |
| Maine | 6 | $13,652 | $2,275 |
| North Dakota | 5 | $12,780 | $2,556 |
| Utah | 4 | $12,348 | $3,087 |
| Hawaii | 5 | $11,201 | $2,240 |
| Iowa | 15 | $10,481 | $699 |
| Delaware | 4 | $7,615 | $1,904 |
| Idaho | 2 | $3,484 | $1,742 |
| Vermont | 3 | $504 | $168 |