Original Medicare · 2024
One Medicare admission. One payment to the hospital, and much smaller fees for the hospitalist’s visits. State by state.
Find your state below. Its page shows what Original Medicare paid for the hospitalists’ services there in 2024, from CMS’s public files on the providers it lists as hospitalists, and where that sits against the national median.
| State | Sepsis stay, cents on the dollar | Hospitalists counted | Median Medicare payment per provider | Median hourly | MA share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 4 cents | 136 | $32,723 | $95/hour | 62% |
| Alaska | 3 cents | 57 | $102,913 | $136/hour | Not published |
| Arizona | 4 cents | 318 | $41,645 | $99/hour | 52% |
| Arkansas | 4 cents | 51 | $73,571 | $100/hour | 47% |
| California | 3 cents | 1,917 | $41,178 | $108/hour | 51% |
| Colorado | 4 cents | 428 | $28,038 | $102/hour | 52% |
| Connecticut | 3 cents | 350 | $28,048 | $108/hour | Not published |
| Delaware | 3 cents | 43 | $61,633 | $99/hour | 33% |
| District of Columbia | 3 cents | 75 | $53,186 | $114/hour | 34% |
| Florida | 3 cents | 1,283 | $48,725 | $102/hour | 57% |
| Georgia | 3 cents | 640 | $46,674 | $101/hour | 56% |
| Hawaii | 3 cents | 126 | $23,469 | $100/hour | 53% |
| Idaho | 3 cents | 85 | $42,375 | $95/hour | 46% |
| Illinois | 4 cents | 1,187 | $46,026 | $106/hour | 44% |
| Indiana | 3 cents | 399 | $50,080 | $95/hour | 51% |
| Iowa | 3 cents | 198 | $48,264 | $95/hour | 38% |
| Kansas | 4 cents | 213 | $56,767 | $99/hour | 34% |
| Kentucky | 4 cents | 254 | $44,666 | $98/hour | 56% |
| Louisiana | 4 cents | 195 | $28,487 | $98/hour | 57% |
| Maine | 3 cents | 155 | $28,226 | $97/hour | 59% |
| Maryland | 3 cents | 416 | $57,530 | $107/hour | 25% |
| Massachusetts | 3 cents | 599 | $44,600 | $105/hour | 36% |
| Michigan | 3 cents | 441 | $37,237 | $101/hour | 64% |
| Minnesota | 3 cents | 249 | $24,252 | $100/hour | 57% |
| Mississippi | 4 cents | 99 | $70,003 | $95/hour | 45% |
| Missouri | 3 cents | 586 | $37,035 | $98/hour | 55% |
| Montana | 3 cents | 81 | $42,685 | $99/hour | 30% |
| Nebraska | 3 cents | 182 | $63,805 | $95/hour | 34% |
| Nevada | 4 cents | 143 | $59,332 | $100/hour | 52% |
| New Hampshire | 3 cents | 98 | $44,528 | $100/hour | 31% |
| New Jersey | 3 cents | 352 | $49,397 | $110/hour | 41% |
| New Mexico | 3 cents | 61 | $30,155 | $101/hour | 51% |
| New York | 3 cents | 1,636 | $41,467 | $113/hour | 54% |
| North Carolina | 4 cents | 925 | $39,324 | $97/hour | 58% |
| North Dakota | 3 cents | 101 | $47,516 | $97/hour | 35% |
| Ohio | 3 cents | 749 | $31,855 | $98/hour | 57% |
| Oklahoma | 3 cents | 205 | $61,555 | $96/hour | 42% |
| Oregon | 3 cents | 363 | $25,774 | $101/hour | 54% |
| Pennsylvania | 3 cents | 1,139 | $40,371 | $100/hour | 54% |
| Rhode Island | 3 cents | 42 | $44,907 | $104/hour | 60% |
| South Carolina | 3 cents | 337 | $44,191 | $97/hour | 47% |
| South Dakota | 3 cents | 76 | $44,804 | $96/hour | 35% |
| Tennessee | 4 cents | 290 | $46,757 | $96/hour | 54% |
| Texas | 4 cents | 1,047 | $41,856 | $102/hour | 55% |
| Utah | 3 cents | 171 | $22,122 | $96/hour | 55% |
| Vermont | 5 cents | 23 | $36,712 | $97/hour | 12% |
| Virginia | 3 cents | 619 | $56,432 | $101/hour | 40% |
| Washington | 3 cents | 644 | $30,224 | $106/hour | 50% |
| West Virginia | 4 cents | 105 | $39,079 | $101/hour | 57% |
| Wisconsin | 3 cents | 610 | $31,382 | $95/hour | 57% |
| Wyoming | 2 cents | 18 | $40,195 | $100/hour | 15% |
The dollars are Medicare’s payments for care billed under each hospitalist’s NPI. Your pay isn’t in them.
Original Medicare only. Medicare Advantage, commercial and Medicaid patients aren’t in these files, so the counts and totals are floors.
Common questions
Is this what hospitalists earn?
No. It’s what Original Medicare paid for the care billed under each hospitalist’s NPI in 2024. Salary is the employer’s number, and it isn’t in any of these files.
Why are some states’ counts so small?
CMS counts only the providers it classifies as Hospitalist, placed by the address on their enrollment. Plenty of hospitalists are enrolled as Internal Medicine instead, and they aren’t on any of these pages.
Why is my state’s median below the national one?
Check the Medicare Advantage share first: where more seniors are in MA plans, fewer of your patients are in these files, and the totals per hospitalist drop with them. Each state page prints that share where CMS publishes it.
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