The FACTS About Open Payments Data

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Total US Dollar Value

3.43
Billion
6.49
Billion
9.92
Billion

Total Records Published

4.30
Million
11.41
Million
15.71
Million

Details by Payment Types

General Payments: US Dollar Value
$972 Million
$2.56 Billion
$3.53 Billion
General Payments
Disputed/Undisputed: US Dollar Value
$1.95 Million $5.06 Million $7.01 Million / $970 Million $2.55 Billion $3.52 Billion
General Payments: Number of Records
4.06 Million
10.82 Million
14.87 Million
General Payments
Disputed/Undisputed: Number of Records
880 1,723 2,603 / 4.05 Million 10.82 Million 14.87 Million
Research Payments: US Dollar Value
$1.55 Billion
$3.23 Billion
$4.78 Billion
Research Payments
Disputed/Undisputed: US Dollar Value
$4.10 Million $13.16 Million $17.26 Million / $1.55 Billion $3.21 Billion $4.76 Billion
Research Payments: Number of Records
241,000
585,000
826,000
Research Payments
Disputed/Undisputed: Number of Records
261 846 1,107 / 241,000 584,000 825,000
Ownership or Investment Interest: US Dollar Value
$908 Million
$703 Million
$1.61 Billion
Ownership or Investment Interest
Disputed/Undisputed: US Dollar Value
$215,000 $0 $215,000 / $908 Million $703 Million $1.61 Billion
Ownership or Investment Interest: Number of Records
4,983
4,785
9,768
Ownership or Investment Interest
Disputed/Undisputed: Number of Records
4 0 4 / 4,979 4,785 9,764

Total Companies Making Payments

1,347
1,444
1,617

Total Physicians
with Payment Records

470,000
607,000
683,000

Total Teaching Hospitals
with Payment Records

1,019
1,121
1,143
Total General Payments: US Dollar Value
$972 Million
$2.56 Billion
$3.53 Billion
Total Research Payments: US Dollar Value
$1.55 Billion
$3.23 Billion
$4.78 Billion
Total Ownership or Investment Interest: US Dollar Value
$908 Million
$703 Million
$1.61 Billion
General Payments to Physicians: US Dollar Value
$735 Million
$2.02 Billion
$2.75 Billion
Research Payments and Associated Research Funding to Physicians: US Dollar Value
$1.19 Billion*
$2.52 Billion*
$3.71 Billion*
Ownership or Investment Interest to Physicians: US Dollar Value
$908 Million
$703 Million
$1.61 Billion
General Payments to Teaching Hospitals: US Dollar Value
$237 Million
$543 Million
$780 Million
Research Payments to Teaching Hospitals: US Dollar Value
$362 Million
$705 Million
$1.07 Billion
Ownership or Investment Interest to Teaching Hospitals: US Dollar Value
$0
$0
$0
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All numbers above 10,000 have been rounded.

*The physician research payments total includes: 1.) Payments where the company making the payment has named a physician as the primary recipient, and 2.) Payments to a research institution or entity where the a physician is named as a principal investigator on the research project.

If you have information about incomplete or inaccurate data being reported to Open Payments, contact CMS’s Open Payments compliance unit at opcompliance@cms.hhs.gov.

Published on June 30, 2015. Learn more about the Open Payments program.