Thoracic Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $495,778 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 54
- Received a payment
- 33 (61.1%)
- Total reported
- $496K
- Average, those paid
- $15,024
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 21 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.
By state
| State | Providers | Total reported | Per provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | $236,506 | $29,563 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | $144,171 | $20,596 |
| Florida | 4 | $40,998 | $10,249 |
| California | 9 | $29,459 | $3,273 |
| Virginia | 2 | $18,637 | $9,319 |
| Kentucky | 1 | $9,769 | $9,769 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | $5,937 | $989 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $4,367 | $4,367 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $1,780 | $1,780 |
| Minnesota | 2 | $1,591 | $796 |
| Illinois | 2 | $1,206 | $603 |
| Ohio | 3 | $1,148 | $383 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $160 | $160 |
| Maryland | 1 | $49 | $49 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Washington | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Colorado | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| New Jersey | 1 | $0 | $0 |
| Utah | 1 | $0 | $0 |