Wound Care: industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $57,874 in payments to providers registered in this specialty across Open Payments program years 2019–2025.
- Providers
- 35
- Received a payment
- 35 (100.0%)
- Total reported
- $58K
- Average, those paid
- $1,654
The average is computed only over providers who received something, because including the 0 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 wound care clinicians
Across 13 wound care clinicians who billed Original Medicare Part B in 2024, Medicare allowed $3,712,199 in total — an average of $285,554 each, of which $285,554 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | 1 | $33,087 | $33,087 |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | $10,192 | $10,192 |
| Texas | 2 | $2,617 | $1,309 |
| Arizona | 3 | $2,382 | $794 |
| New Jersey | 5 | $2,180 | $436 |
| California | 5 | $1,661 | $332 |
| Washington | 1 | $1,381 | $1,381 |
| Virginia | 1 | $1,310 | $1,310 |
| New York | 2 | $682 | $341 |
| Louisiana | 1 | $600 | $600 |
| Hawaii | 2 | $487 | $243 |
| Florida | 2 | $459 | $229 |
| Illinois | 3 | $421 | $140 |
| North Carolina | 1 | $185 | $185 |
| Oklahoma | 1 | $108 | $108 |
| Massachusetts | 1 | $64 | $64 |
| Ohio | 1 | $31 | $31 |
| Indiana | 1 | $14 | $14 |
| Utah | 1 | $14 | $14 |