Data Analysis

Medicare Costs by Specialty in New York

Medicare reimbursement rates vary significantly across medical specialties. This analysis examines average Medicare payments per service for providers in New York, 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: 1,418 State: New York

1,418

Providers Analyzed

With at least one payment on record

$137

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 — New York

CMS Open Payments

#	Specialty	Avg Medicare Payment	Providers	Total Services
1	Dentist - General Practice	$747	11	2,988
2	Dentist	$366	23	4,044
3	Special Hospital	$358	3	445
4	Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery (D.M.D.)	$342	11	2,183
5	Addiction Medicine (Anesthesiology) Physician	$250	1	226
6	Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Physician	$226	1	287
7	Clinical Biochemical Genetics Physician	$192	1	15
8	Vascular Surgery	$184	65	21,212
9	Pain Management Registered Nurse	$181	4	227
10	Plastic Surgery	$180	131	57,524
11	Clinical Informatics (Pathology) Physician	$169	1	117
12	MOHS-Micrographic Surgery Physician	$164	46	138,179
13	Neurocritical Care Physician	$159	22	5,202
14	Ambulatory Surgical Clinic/Center	$155	1	87
15	Clinical Cytogenetics Physician	$152	1	2,347
16	Colon & Rectal Surgery	$149	92	35,270
17	Vascular Surgery Physician	$137	242	299,803
18	Transplant Surgery Physician	$134	60	20,940
19	Radiology - Diagnostic	$132	262	474,720
20	Periodontics	$129	1	26
21	Neurological Surgery	$129	276	105,655
22	Brain Injury Medicine (Psychiatry & Neurology) Physician	$127	1	156
23	Nuclear Imaging & Therapy Physician	$125	10	21,748
24	Surgery of the Hand (Plastic Surgery) Physician	$124	18	2,970
25	Oral Medicine Dentistry	$123	1	256
26	Retina Specialist (Ophthalmology) Physician	$123	61	480,048
27	Medical Toxicology (Emergency Medicine) Physician	$123	13	2,865
28	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (Dentist)	$121	57	4,133
29	Cardiology Technician	$121	1	100
30	Student Health Clinic/Center	$120	1	155

State payment context — New York

CMS Open Payments

Across 108,980 New York providers with at least one disclosed industry payment over 2018–2024, the median provider received $347 in total payments, compared with a national median of $339 across 1,571,086 paid providers.

New York accounts for 7.7% 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 — New York

Specialty	Median per provider	Providers paid	Total payments
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Physician	$15,845	87	$19,675,856
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine Physician	$12,505	123	$52,766,183
Sports Medicine (Orthopaedic Surgery) Physician	$9,366	154	$15,594,551
Adult Reconstructive Orthopaedic Surgery Physician	$8,820	71	$8,232,265
Orthopaedic Trauma Physician	$7,360	48	$3,811,262

Industry payments in New York by year

Year	Total payments	Providers paid	Transactions
2018	$193,760,706	43,373	730,279
2019	$219,218,416	42,953	716,953
2020	$110,096,814	34,104	396,763
2021	$140,533,962	51,213	746,103
2022	$201,495,928	57,438	869,963
2023	$184,733,468	62,301	949,874
2024	$191,700,322	65,744	1,019,975

Methodology Average Medicare payment per service calculated from Medicare Part B Utilization data for providers licensed in New York. 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.