CMS Open Payments · program year 2021

What industry reported paying in 2021

Every figure below is one kind of money. They are reported under different rules and are never added together.

$3,270,711,176

General payments

$8,303,425,529

Research payments

$1,727,696,075

Ownership interests

773,153

Recipients named

No combined total A meal, a clinical trial grant and an ownership stake are three different things. Adding them produces a number that means nothing, so this site never shows one.

Who took part

Participant Count
Manufacturers and GPOs reporting 1,838
Recipients named 773,153
Teaching hospitals 1,252
General payment records 11,558,469
Research payment records 894,317

Rankings for 2021

Other program years

Source: CMS Open Payments · program year 2021

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