Transplant Hepatology: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $10,578,850 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 238
- Received a payment
- 236 (99.2%)
- Total reported
- $10.6M
- Average, those paid
- $44,826
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 2 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 transplant hepatology clinicians
Across 214 transplant hepatology clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $9,781,679 in total — an average of $45,709 each, of which $45,353 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 28 | $2,047,892 | $73,139 |
| New Jersey | 9 | $1,635,758 | $181,751 |
| California | 39 | $1,458,385 | $37,394 |
| Georgia | 7 | $1,049,106 | $149,872 |
| New York | 36 | $598,424 | $16,623 |
| Ohio | 9 | $568,934 | $63,215 |
| Michigan | 3 | $498,885 | $166,295 |
| District of Columbia | 5 | $445,697 | $89,139 |
| Florida | 14 | $405,536 | $28,967 |
| Arizona | 5 | $316,616 | $63,323 |
| Illinois | 5 | $276,477 | $55,295 |
| Kentucky | 4 | $235,271 | $58,818 |
| North Carolina | 10 | $208,370 | $20,837 |
| Missouri | 2 | $175,446 | $87,723 |
| Wisconsin | 3 | $147,185 | $49,062 |
| Tennessee | 8 | $101,868 | $12,733 |
| Louisiana | 2 | $100,739 | $50,370 |
| Utah | 5 | $76,445 | $15,289 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | $70,758 | $10,108 |
| Massachusetts | 3 | $55,575 | $18,525 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $47,051 | $47,051 |
| Colorado | 6 | $23,672 | $3,945 |
| Minnesota | 4 | $11,130 | $2,783 |
| Washington | 7 | $9,763 | $1,395 |
| Hawaii | 1 | $6,543 | $6,543 |
| Kansas | 2 | $1,630 | $815 |
| Maryland | 2 | $1,505 | $752 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $1,418 | $709 |
| South Carolina | 4 | $1,246 | $312 |
| Virginia | 3 | $1,055 | $352 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $350 | $350 |
| Connecticut | 1 | $121 | $121 |