One source, queried live, with nothing in between.
Every figure on this site comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments programme, via its public API at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/api/1/datastore/query. No API key is required and the endpoint sends open CORS headers, so this site could in principle run entirely in your browser. Program years 2019–2025 are covered.
| Dataset | Used for | Distribution ID |
|---|---|---|
| Covered Recipient Profile Supplement | The physician index. Name and NPI resolution. | 004e1f11-aa67-5b16-943d-1fe1044b3512 |
| Payments grouped by covered recipient and nature, all years | Profile headline totals and category mix. | 2c0ac902-6588-5ed9-acb9-dbbe196f2e8e |
| General Payment Data, 2019–2025 | Individual payment records, company and product breakdowns. | 93b512a7-7f65-539b-9e20-bbcc535750bd (2024) and six sibling years |
| Research Payment Data, 2019–2025 | Institution-directed research funding. | 9b5f8442-2ba3-58d2-9944-7e8bb97346b6 (2024) and six sibling years |
| Ownership Payment Data, 2019–2025 | Equity and investment interests. | 22913353-fc5a-529d-a700-48dad47e8b83 (2024) and six sibling years |
| Payments grouped by reporting entities | All company pages and the company index. | f06eed8a-d4f3-5687-873e-fc2b597e204e |
| State level payment totals, all years | Every state page. | 55795580-0d38-5c21-a405-0539b5c2199c |
| State payment totals by nature of payment | Category breakdowns on state pages. | 24cd0d6f-1564-5d42-bc24-6858cedf7c09 |
| National totals and averages by provider specialty | Every specialty page. | c5f70f92-bcbb-583e-bded-a3e46fc4e307 |
| Payments grouped by Teaching Hospital | Every hospital page. | 119f49fc-ce8e-5f24-8adf-73a22b9498b4 |
| National level payment totals and averages | Homepage headline figures. | 1fc6a1d3-a798-5e07-af2f-12f18a91637c |
CMS’s aggregate tables encode the nature of payment as an integer with no published crosswalk. We derived it by matching (count, amount) pairs against the labelled detail tables. For anyone who needs it:
| Code | CMS label |
|---|---|
| 1 | Consulting Fee |
| 2 | Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program |
| 3 | Honoraria |
| 4 | Gift |
| 5 | Entertainment |
| 6 | Food and Beverage |
| 7 | Travel and Lodging |
| 8 | Education |
| 9 | Charitable Contribution |
| 10 | Royalty or License |
| 11 | Current or prospective ownership or investment interest |
| 12 | Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program |
| 13 | Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program |
| 14 | Grant |
| 15 | Space rental or facility fees (teaching hospital only) |
| 16 | Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program |
| 17 | Debt forgiveness |
| 18 | Long term medical supply or device loan |
| 19 | Acquisitions |
Open Payments data is a work of the United States federal government and is in the public domain. DocDollars is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to CMS, HHS or any government agency. CMS’s own interface is at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov.
CMS publishes annually each June, covering the prior calendar year, and refreshes earlier years at the same time. Because this site queries the API live, it has no staleness of its own beyond a short edge cache.