Tool

how your doctor gets paid

Since 2013, federal law has required drug and device companies to report what they pay physicians. Almost nobody looks. This is the lookup: type a name, see the 2024 record — consulting fees, speaking, meals, travel — straight from CMS’s own database.

Read this first: a payment is a fact, not a verdict. Most entries are small — a catered office lunch counts. The population-level research on what industry contact does to prescribing lives on who funds your doctor’s education; it cannot convict an individual, and neither can this page.

Common questions

Where does this data come from?
Directly from CMS’s Open Payments program — the federal database the Physician Payments Sunshine Act created in 2013. Drug and device manufacturers are legally required to report payments and transfers of value to physicians; we query CMS’s own API live and add nothing to it. Program year 2024, published June 2026.
My doctor took payments. Does that mean their advice is biased?
Not by itself, and this page will not tell you it does. A payment is a fact, not a verdict. The research on industry contact and prescribing shows an association at the population level — physicians with more industry contact prescribe more, and more expensively, on average — but it cannot convict any individual. The honest use of this lookup is as a conversation starter: "I saw you’ve done paid speaking for the company that makes the drug you’re recommending — walk me through the alternatives?" is a fair question, and a good doctor will not mind it.
What is the difference between a $40 meal entry and a $40,000 speaking entry?
Scale and role. Food-and-beverage entries are mostly rep visits — a catered office lunch, divided among everyone present. Consulting and speaking fees are direct compensation for work with the company. The research finding worth knowing: even small meals correlate with prescribing changes at the population level, which is why they must be reported at all. But treating a sandwich and a speaker contract as morally identical would be innumerate; the breakdown exists so you can see which kind your doctor’s entries are.
My doctor is not in here at all. What does that mean?
Most likely: no reportable payments in 2024 — which describes many physicians. Also possible: name spelling differences (the database uses legal names), payments below reporting thresholds, or a recipient type the Sunshine Act does not cover. Absence of an entry is a good sign, not proof of purity; presence is a fact, not an accusation.

Source

CMS Open Payments, program year 2024 (published June 2026), queried live via the openpaymentsdata.cms.gov API: the per-recipient summary dataset joined with recipient profiles. Payment-nature labels were verified against the underlying 2024 General Payment records. This tool shows physician (individual) payments only; research and ownership payments are separate datasets on the CMS site.