Trauma Surgery: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $9,583,162 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 1,164
- Received a payment
- 1,159 (99.6%)
- Total reported
- $9.6M
- Average, those paid
- $8,268
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 5 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 trauma surgery clinicians
Across 974 trauma surgery clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $43,382,237 in total — an average of $44,540 each, of which $44,532 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 | 119 | $1,306,813 | $10,982 |
| Texas | 108 | $1,229,719 | $11,386 |
| Pennsylvania | 84 | $776,811 | $9,248 |
| Arizona | 31 | $662,480 | $21,370 |
| New York | 63 | $557,157 | $8,844 |
| Louisiana | 20 | $531,985 | $26,599 |
| Ohio | 51 | $498,631 | $9,777 |
| Florida | 93 | $435,080 | $4,678 |
| Tennessee | 38 | $428,250 | $11,270 |
| Illinois | 47 | $324,464 | $6,903 |
| Colorado | 38 | $282,542 | $7,435 |
| Alabama | 26 | $250,041 | $9,617 |
| New Jersey | 47 | $247,839 | $5,273 |
| Georgia | 35 | $231,794 | $6,623 |
| Wisconsin | 40 | $230,491 | $5,762 |
| Maine | 7 | $221,802 | $31,686 |
| Oregon | 16 | $157,938 | $9,871 |
| Missouri | 30 | $133,553 | $4,452 |
| North Carolina | 19 | $116,171 | $6,114 |
| Washington | 35 | $106,304 | $3,037 |
| Kentucky | 7 | $103,632 | $14,805 |
| Minnesota | 14 | $103,540 | $7,396 |
| Maryland | 30 | $94,085 | $3,136 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | $88,071 | $4,893 |
| Connecticut | 12 | $58,090 | $4,841 |
| Michigan | 16 | $51,492 | $3,218 |
| Nevada | 9 | $48,494 | $5,388 |
| Indiana | 14 | $36,966 | $2,640 |
| Virginia | 15 | $36,457 | $2,430 |
| Utah | 7 | $35,122 | $5,017 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | $27,705 | $2,771 |
| Rhode Island | 3 | $27,242 | $9,081 |
| Iowa | 3 | $19,650 | $6,550 |
| Nebraska | 4 | $19,586 | $4,896 |
| Mississippi | 2 | $16,438 | $8,219 |
| South Dakota | 1 | $14,259 | $14,259 |
| Oklahoma | 7 | $13,178 | $1,883 |
| Arkansas | 2 | $9,897 | $4,948 |
| New Mexico | 2 | $9,886 | $4,943 |
| South Carolina | 9 | $9,588 | $1,065 |
| Kansas | 4 | $8,565 | $2,141 |
| Idaho | 4 | $6,653 | $1,663 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | $4,736 | $947 |
| Hawaii | 3 | $3,326 | $1,109 |
| West Virginia | 6 | $2,028 | $338 |
| North Dakota | 3 | $1,847 | $616 |
| Vermont | 2 | $1,753 | $877 |
| Montana | 2 | $508 | $254 |
| AE | 1 | $236 | $236 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $230 | $230 |
| AP | 1 | $37 | $37 |