
OpenPayments
Data by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS Open Payments (US Sunshine Act): payments and transfers of value from drug and device manufacturers to physicians, practitioners and teaching hospitals, including research payments linked to studies. Program years 2019 onward.
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Tools (6)
- getTopPaymentRecipientsRank US clinicians by general payments (consulting, speaker fees, travel, food...) received in one program year from a company and/or for a drug/device. Core KOL-mapping tool: filter by nature of payment, state or specialty. Requires companyId or productName; productName-only queries scan the whole year and can take up to a minute, so pass companyId when known. Product matching uses the primary product of each payment.Free
- getRecipientPaymentsGet everything industry paid one US clinician (by NPI) in CMS Open Payments: yearly totals since 2019 (general, research, ownership), totals per paying company across all years, and for one program year the breakdown by company, nature of payment and product. Use for KOL profiling and conflict-of-interest checks.Free
- searchOpenPaymentsCompaniesFind drug/device manufacturers and GPOs reporting to CMS Open Payments (US Sunshine Act) by name, ranked by total payments since 2019. Returns the companyId needed by getCompanyPaymentSummary, getTopPaymentRecipients and searchResearchPayments. Large groups report under several entities (e.g. 'Pfizer Inc.' vs 'Pfizer Laboratories').Free
- searchOpenPaymentsRecipientsFind US physicians and non-physician practitioners (NP, PA...) in the CMS Open Payments recipient registry by last name or NPI, optionally narrowed by first name, state, city or specialty. Returns NPIs for getRecipientPayments. Only covers clinicians who received at least one reported payment since 2013.Free
- searchResearchPaymentsSearch CMS Open Payments research payments for one program year by sponsor company, product, ClinicalTrials.gov NCT ID, study name or principal investigator NPI. Results are aggregated per study, paid institution and principal investigator, with NCT IDs (when reported) to join with ClinicalTrials.gov. Many research rows have no NCT ID.Free
- getCompanyPaymentSummaryGet a manufacturer's CMS Open Payments totals: general, research and ownership payments for every program year since 2019, plus for one program year the general-payment breakdown by nature of payment (consulting, speaker fees, food, travel...) and by product. Use product names returned here with getTopPaymentRecipients.Free
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