Search payments to doctors from drug and device companies by clinician name, state, county, specialty, company or drug. Every record comes from CMS Open Payments (opens in a new tab), the federal database that companies must report to. For example, you can see which doctors in your state received the most, or which companies paid a specialty the most.
How payments to doctors are reported
Companies report each payment once a year, and CMS publishes the records the next summer. Then clinicians can review and dispute them. However, a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing. Many payments are for meals at educational events, consulting or speaking. Therefore, read each record in context, and see who pays doctors and why.
About this list
- What’s counted: general payments that drug and device makers reported to CMS for 2025: meals, travel, speaking and consulting fees, honoraria, education, grants, gifts and more. Research payments and ownership interests are separate CMS files and are not included.
- The default view leaves out royalties and acquisition payments, which mostly go to inventors and former company owners. Choose “All general payments, including royalties” to include them.
- Same numbers as the map: every total here matches our payments map. Clinicians are placed by the practice address in the NPI registry; a few without a U.S. practice county are not listed.
- Drug and drug-group views rank payments that companies tied to that product. The “Largest payers” line for those views shows each clinician’s payments from all products.
Companies report these records, and CMS publishes them under federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act). Clinicians can review and dispute records with CMS before publication and correct them afterward; see CMS Open Payments. Details are on our Methodology page.