Open Payments — industry payments to physicians
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
In a RepVector build, this dataset shows where money is actually being spent and by whom.
| Recipient | Recipient type | Specialty | City | Paying manufacturer/GPO |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Nursing Service Providers|Registered Nurse|Psychiatric/Menta | CHUBBUCK | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|P | CHUBBUCK | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|N | MERIDIAN | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|P | EAGLE | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|P | BOISE | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|P | MERIDIAN | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|N | MERIDIAN | Corium, LLC |
| — | Covered Recipient Non-Physician Practitioner | Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers|N | COEUR D ALENE | Corium, LLC |
What this dataset is
Individual payments and transfers of value from drug and medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to physicians, non-physician practitioners and teaching hospitals — amount, payment type and manufacturer. Shows which clinicians and hospitals in a market receive industry money and how much. It is published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and can be queried at state level, refreshed annual. Each row is an individual entity — an organisation, site or practitioner — so results can be filtered, routed and turned directly into a call list.
Why it is useful
- Ranks targets by observed volume rather than by guesswork or list order.
- Surfaces high-volume accounts that a headcount-only view would rank as average.
- Provides the evidence a manager expects behind a territory investment ask.
Questions it helps answer
- Which accounts here already transact at meaningful volume?
- Where is spend concentrated inside an otherwise flat market?
- Which targets justify a named-account plan rather than a routine call?
How different verticals use it
RepVector is vertical-agnostic: this dataset is selected by what your question asks for, not by industry. These are common ways teams put it to work.
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How RepVector uses it
- You describe a market in plain language. The geography resolver turns the place you named into the exact identifiers this dataset needs — city to county to state, plus DMA where relevant — so a query at state runs without you knowing any codes.
- The planner selects Open Payments — industry payments to physicians only when your question matches what it actually reports. It is never included to pad a result.
- Returned rows are normalised into the shared metric layer, so figures from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services line up with every other source in the same dashboard instead of sitting in an isolated table.
- Quality checks score coverage and recency. If Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services suppresses or omits a value for your geography, the gap is reported as a gap — nothing is estimated or filled in.
- The result renders as charts, KPIs and, where the rows are entities, prioritised targets you can export to PDF, Excel, CSV or JSON.
What it does not tell you
- Reported with a lag and often suppressed at low counts, so recent shifts may not appear yet.
| Field | Key | Type |
|---|---|---|
| Recipient | recipient | string |
| Recipient type | recipientType | string |
| Specialty | specialty | string |
| City | city | string |
| Paying manufacturer/GPO | manufacturer | string |
How it fits with the rest of the catalog
Spending data is the ranking signal; provider registries supply the identity it attaches to. RepVector queries every selected dataset against the same resolved geography and time window, then normalises the results into one metric layer so they can be charted side by side. These datasets are the most common companions to Open Payments — industry payments to physicians:
Other spending datasets
Common questions
What does Open Payments — industry payments to physicians contain?
Individual payments and transfers of value from drug and medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to physicians, non-physician practitioners and teaching hospitals — amount, payment type and manufacturer. Shows which clinicians and hospitals in a market receive industry money and how much. It is published by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services at state grain.
How often is it refreshed?
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes on a annual cycle. RepVector re-reads the source on that cadence and keeps every prior capture, so you can see what changed.
Do I need an account to use it?
No. Browsing the catalog and the free lookup tools needs no account. Running a full market build across every county in a territory is the paid product.
Build the list for one county and see whether the names are right.
Ask in plain language. RepVector finds the universe, enriches each target from its own website, scores it 0–100, and hands you a ranked call list with phones, addresses and named contacts.
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