Data Analysis

Medicare Costs by Specialty in Florida

Medicare reimbursement rates vary significantly across medical specialties. This analysis examines average Medicare payments per service for providers in Florida, ranked by reimbursement level. Understanding these differences helps contextualize specialty costs and resource allocation across the healthcare system.

Data source: CMS Open Payments + Medicare Part B Coverage: 2023–2023 Providers analyzed: 2,660 State: Florida

2,660

Providers Analyzed

With at least one payment on record

$145

Avg Medicare Payment

Per service across all procedures

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Context: Industry payments to physicians are legally required to be disclosed under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Receiving payments does not imply wrongdoing. Payments may reflect consulting expertise, research participation, or speaking engagements. This data is provided to support transparency, not to render clinical judgments.

Average Medicare Payment by Specialty — Florida

CMS Open Payments

#	Specialty	Avg Medicare Payment	Providers	Total Services
1	Continence Care Registered Nurse	$607	1	1,782
2	Nuclear Imaging & Therapy Physician	$412	3	4,729
3	Wound Care Registered Nurse	$315	9	28,446
4	Dentist	$242	17	2,352
5	Prosthodontics	$238	2	354
6	Phlebology Physician	$234	14	22,423
7	Pediatric Registered Nurse	$207	1	29
8	Public Medicine Podiatrist	$203	5	10,183
9	Dentist - General Practice	$173	7	11,445
10	Neurological Surgery	$172	361	162,781
11	Critical Care Medicine (Obstetrics & Gynecology) Physician	$168	1	91
12	Therapeutic Radiology Physician	$159	14	85,357
13	Vascular Surgery	$158	60	21,056
14	Plastic Surgery	$150	127	64,448
15	Transplant Surgery Physician	$145	34	8,984
16	Radiology - Diagnostic	$145	340	1,097,234
17	Plastic Surgery Within the Head and Neck (Plastic Surgery) Physician	$145	3	1,778
18	Vascular Surgery Physician	$143	228	286,320
19	Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Physician	$142	1	756
20	Geriatric Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician	$132	69	121,391
21	Addiction Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician	$132	12	6,773
22	Basic Emergency Medical Technician	$128	1	792
23	Surgery	$126	1,175	625,931
24	Neurocritical Care Physician	$123	18	6,389
25	Colon & Rectal Surgery	$121	80	34,529
26	Pediatric Gastroenterology Physician	$120	1	38
27	Surgical Oncology Physician	$119	69	22,421
28	Neuro-ophthalmology Physician	$115	4	2,617
29	Family Psychologist	$114	1	223
30	Pediatric Gastroenterology	$113	2	131

State payment context — Florida

CMS Open Payments

Across 120,694 Florida providers with at least one disclosed industry payment over 2018–2024, the median provider received $439 in total payments, compared with a national median of $339 across 1,571,086 paid providers.

Florida accounts for 8.0% of the $16,205,257,917 in industry payments recorded nationwide in this database, and its per-provider median runs above the national benchmark.

Top specialties by median industry payment — Florida

Specialty	Median per provider	Providers paid	Total payments
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician	$25,760	143	$10,190,194
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician	$18,197	124	$22,716,548
Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgery Physician	$9,903	42	$28,863,596
Interventional Cardiology	$8,524	308	$10,312,419
Orthopaedic Trauma Physician	$8,517	52	$9,239,080

Industry payments in Florida by year

Year	Total payments	Providers paid	Transactions
2018	$165,844,824	47,585	896,175
2019	$216,352,255	47,226	868,231
2020	$146,682,865	38,658	510,934
2021	$185,129,028	63,449	1,024,502
2022	$190,921,312	70,195	1,162,228
2023	$195,111,951	76,306	1,296,745
2024	$203,458,671	80,470	1,351,129

Methodology Average Medicare payment per service calculated from Medicare Part B Utilization data for providers licensed in Florida. Only specialties with at least one recorded procedure are included. Average reflects the mean of per-service payment amounts across all procedures within each specialty grouping, not total expenditure. Data source: CMS Medicare Part B Utilization, accessed via doctransparency.com database.