The data

Everything on this site comes from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services under the Open Payments program, established by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act.

What is in it

• General payments — consulting fees, speaking payments, travel, meals, gifts, royalties.
• Research payments — funding tied to a named study. Overwhelmingly paid to institutions rather than individuals.
• Ownership interests — a physician’s ownership or investment stake in a manufacturer.

How often it changes

CMS publishes annually. Every figure on this site is tied to a program year, and that year is always shown beside it, because a figure without its year cannot be interpreted. There is no “updated just now” here — it would be false.

What it does not cover

Only manufacturers of products reimbursable by Medicare, Medicaid or CHIP must report, and only payments above a reporting threshold. A clinician with no record here may simply never have been reported on. An absent payment is not evidence of an absent relationship.

Downloads and the full technical documentation are at cms.gov/openpayments.