Transplant Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $13,259,225 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 794
- Received a payment
- 782 (98.5%)
- Total reported
- $13.3M
- Average, those paid
- $16,956
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 12 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 surgery clinicians
Across 595 transplant surgery clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $40,786,805 in total — an average of $68,549 each, of which $68,543 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 | 56 | $1,652,609 | $29,511 |
| New York | 72 | $1,639,672 | $22,773 |
| New Jersey | 15 | $1,225,440 | $81,696 |
| Florida | 53 | $1,187,047 | $22,397 |
| Texas | 70 | $1,004,633 | $14,352 |
| Ohio | 43 | $964,442 | $22,429 |
| Illinois | 52 | $721,149 | $13,868 |
| Missouri | 13 | $649,637 | $49,972 |
| Georgia | 29 | $506,449 | $17,464 |
| District of Columbia | 16 | $471,050 | $29,441 |
| Maryland | 17 | $400,535 | $23,561 |
| Colorado | 22 | $338,402 | $15,382 |
| Arizona | 21 | $326,596 | $15,552 |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | $287,653 | $7,016 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | $279,646 | $8,739 |
| Michigan | 12 | $268,070 | $22,339 |
| Kentucky | 13 | $143,957 | $11,074 |
| Minnesota | 21 | $124,125 | $5,911 |
| Iowa | 11 | $99,268 | $9,024 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | $93,912 | $4,083 |
| Virginia | 16 | $92,483 | $5,780 |
| Nebraska | 7 | $83,771 | $11,967 |
| South Dakota | 6 | $76,903 | $12,817 |
| Hawaii | 4 | $66,601 | $16,650 |
| Louisiana | 16 | $65,944 | $4,122 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $60,506 | $3,025 |
| Utah | 8 | $56,837 | $7,105 |
| Nevada | 4 | $49,978 | $12,495 |
| Alabama | 9 | $48,614 | $5,402 |
| Oregon | 7 | $42,656 | $6,094 |
| Washington | 11 | $41,144 | $3,740 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | $33,753 | $3,375 |
| South Carolina | 9 | $33,298 | $3,700 |
| Indiana | 5 | $23,021 | $4,604 |
| Connecticut | 8 | $20,060 | $2,507 |
| North Dakota | 1 | $15,990 | $15,990 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $12,999 | $4,333 |
| North Carolina | 8 | $12,927 | $1,616 |
| Puerto Rico | 2 | $10,998 | $5,499 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $10,907 | $5,454 |
| Vermont | 1 | $8,573 | $8,573 |
| Arkansas | 1 | $5,082 | $5,082 |
| Kansas | 1 | $780 | $780 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $670 | $670 |
| West Virginia | 1 | $422 | $422 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | $17 | $17 |