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Open Payments (CMS) Review, Pricing, and Features
Open Payments (CMS)
Open Payments is CMS's public database of payments, research funding, and ownership interests reported by drug and device companies and group purchasing organizations. It covers physicians, certain non-physician practitioners, and teaching hospitals. A published payment does not mean the relationship was improper.
Best for
- Healthcare, pharma, medtech, and policy analysts needing official U.S. payment, ownership, and research-payment data between manufacturers/GPOs and covered healthcare recipients.
- Healthcare researchers needing free, searchable, downloadable, and API-accessible Open Payments datasets from CMS.
- Alternative-data workflows that need product/company/provider relationship signals for healthcare diligence, compliance, or risk research.
Watch out
- CMS publishes the previous program year annually and refreshes after review cycles, so the data is not a real-time payment feed.
- Open Payments covers reportable manufacturer/GPO relationships with covered recipients, not all healthcare spending or company revenue.
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Pricing
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Key features
- Search tools across official Sunshine Act records for payments and ownership interests reported by drug manufacturers, device manufacturers, and group purchasing organizations.
- Comparison tools for General Payments, Research Payments, and Ownership or Investment Interests across program years.
- Lookup tools for physicians, non-physician practitioners, teaching hospitals, manufacturers, products, payment categories, dates, and dollar amounts from the public web tool.
- Charts, filters, and downloadable tables to move from a provider, company, or product question into the underlying records.
- Download support for bulk datasets when healthcare, pharma, medtech, policy, or compliance workflows need repeatable offline analysis.
- A public Open Data API for filtering, queries, aggregation, and SQL queries against individual datasets.
- Access to supplemental lookup tables such as covered-recipient profile files when you need cleaner provider-level analysis.
- CMS publishes the prior program year by June 30 and refreshes the records in January. Open Payments is not a real-time feed.
- CMS publishes data attested to by reporting entities and does not judge the relationship. A record is not proof of wrongdoing, influence, prescribing behavior, or investment merit.
- Open Payments is a healthcare disclosure database. It is not a stock screener, market-data feed, valuation tool, broker, or portfolio tracker.
FAQ
Is Open Payments (CMS) free?
Open Payments (CMS) is free to use. Visit the vendor site for the latest limits and onboarding details.
Who is Open Payments (CMS) best for?
It suits beginner, intermediate, and advanced users.
What platforms and connections does Open Payments (CMS) support?
You can use Open Payments (CMS) on Web. Open Payments (CMS) offers an API (REST) with None authentication.
Which markets does Open Payments (CMS) cover?
Open Payments (CMS) covers North America. Examples include US. It tracks Other.
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