CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) — physicians, teaching hospitals, pharma reporters

Dataset · US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · primary source ↗

Every entity in the CMS Open Payments database — Sunshine Act-mandated disclosures of pharmaceutical and medical device payments to US physicians and teaching hospitals. **Physicians (~30k top-paid)**: every doctor with >= $5,000 lifetime general payments OR >= $50k research grants, ranked by total amount with NPI, specialty, city, state. **Teaching Hospitals (1,470)**: every Medicare-certified teaching hospital that receives industry payments. **Reporting Entities (2,900)**: every pharma/device manufacturer required to report (Merck, Pfizer, Stryker, Medtronic, etc.). Pre-aggregated by year via DKAN API. Source: openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/api/1/datastore/query (no auth). The Sunshine Act exists because this data WAS hidden from the public — we expose every dollar.

Source agency
US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
License / terms
Coverage
~34k recipients (1,470 TH + 2,900 RE + ~30k MDs)
API endpoint

Keywords

Open PaymentsSunshine ActPhysician Payment Sunshine Actpharmaceutical payments to doctorsindustry paymentsmedical device paymentsNPIteaching hospitalconsulting fees

Provenance

Every record in this dataset can be traced back to its primary source at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/. Source-specific terms apply. US federal employee-authored works are generally public domain under 17 USC 105; non-federal and third-party material retains source terms. Free or keyless access does not alter source terms. AI Analytics-authored metadata and normalization are CC0 only where expressly stated.

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