Clinician type
Speech-Language Pathologists
At a glance
- Practicing in the U.S.
- 203,513
- Per 100,000 residents
- 60.2
- Women
- 96%
- Median years since graduating
- 10
Who they are
- Women 96%
- Graduated 35 or more years ago 5%
- Offer telehealth 10%
- Accept Medicare’s approved amount 73%
Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.
Where they practice
What they do most for Medicare patients
- Treatment of speech, language, voice, communication, and/or hearing processing disorder 546,159
- Therapy procedure for a range of mental processes, each additional 15 minutes 372,949
- Treatment of swallowing and feeding disorder 165,031
- Therapy procedure for a range of mental processes, initial 15 minutes 156,122
- Therapy procedure using functional activities 28,260
- Evaluation of speech sound production with evaluation of language comprehension and expression 27,002
- Evaluation of swallowing function 19,916
- Analysis of voice and resonance production 14,093
- Training for self-care or home management, each 15 minutes 8,911
- Exam to assess movement of vocal cord flaps using an endoscope 5,760
- Evaluation of swallowing function image 5,185
- Therapy service for use of speech-generating device with programming 5,165
Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.
What they prescribe most
- Levetiracetam (Keppra Xr, Roweepra, Spritam) 22.4%
- Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 20.7%
- Ondansetron 19.0%
- Tiotropium Bromide (Spiriva Handihaler, Spiriva Respimat) 19.0%
- Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 19.0%
Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.
Hospitals where the most work
- University of Wi Hospitals & Clinics Authority Madison, WI 8 Speech-Language Pathologists at University of Wi Hospitals & Clinics Authority
- University of Alabama Hospital Birmingham, AL 5 Speech-Language Pathologists at University of Alabama Hospital
- University of Kansas Hospital Kansas City, KS 5 Speech-Language Pathologists at University of Kansas Hospital
- Keck Hospital of Usc Los Angeles, CA 4 Speech-Language Pathologists at Keck Hospital of Usc
- Harris Health Houston, TX 4 Speech-Language Pathologists at Harris Health
- Trident Medical Center Charleston, SC 3 Speech-Language Pathologists at Trident Medical Center
- Virginia Mason Medical Center Seattle, WA 3 Speech-Language Pathologists at Virginia Mason Medical Center
- Karmanos Cancer Center Detroit, MI 2 Speech-Language Pathologists at Karmanos Cancer Center
- HCA Florida Memorial Hospital Jacksonville, FL 2 Speech-Language Pathologists at HCA Florida Memorial Hospital
- The Nebraska Methodist Hospital Omaha, NE 2 Speech-Language Pathologists at The Nebraska Methodist Hospital
Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.
Schools they graduated from most
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 20
- New York Medical College 18
- Vanderbilt University School of Medicine 15
- Wayne State University School of Medicine 14
- State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine 13
- University of Nevada School of Medicine 13
- University of Kansas School of Med (kc/wich/sal) 11
- New York University School of Medicine 10
- Rush Medical College of Rush University 10
- University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 10
From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).
Industry payments
Drug and device makers reported $513 in general payments to 11 clinicians in Speech-Language Pathologists in 2025. See who received the most
Source: CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Sources: CMS NPPES (counts, sex, credentials), Medicare Care Compare (schools, graduation years, hospitals, telehealth), CMS Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners (2023) and Part D Prescribers (2024), CMS Open Payments (2025), ACGME program requirements (training length), OpenAlex (research), U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2020–2024 (population).