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CMS Publishes Program Year 2022 Open Payments Data
Today, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published Open Payments Program Year 2022 data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for previous program years. The data is accessible at https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/.
Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes transparency and accountability by making information about the financial relationships between applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and certain healthcare providers available to the public. Because of this program the American public has much more transparent insight into the nation’s healthcare system. Drug and medical device companies are held accountable by law to report certain financial relationships for the purpose of the Open Payments program. Healthcare providers have a voluntary role in Open Payments and may review, affirm or if necessary, dispute data that has been reported about them.
Program Year 2022 Summary
For Program Year 2022, CMS published $12.59 billion in payments and ownership and investment interests made by applicable manufacturers and GPOs to physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses and teaching hospitals. This amount is comprised of 14.11 million records attributable to 588,514 physicians, 271,682 non-physician practitioner (NPPs), and 1,240 teaching hospitals.
Payments are reported in three payment categories: general payments, research payments, and ownership or investment interests. Payments in the three major reporting categories for Program Year 2022 are:
- $3.71 billion in general (i.e., non-research related) payments
- $7.58 billion in research payments
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$1.29 billion of ownership or investment interests held by physicians or their immediate family members
Over the last seven years, 80.66 million records amounting to $68.44 billion have been published through the Open Payments program.
The Program Year 2022 data publication is the second Open Payments publication that includes data about physician assistants and advanced practice nurses. In Program Year 2022 physicians received 67.27% of the combined number of general and research payment records; physician assistants and NPPs received 31.64% of payment records, and teaching hospitals received 1.08% of payment records.
Although physicians and NPPs receive the majority of general and research payments, they did not receive the largest monetary totals. Teaching hospitals received the highest dollar value of payments in Program Year 2022; 49.42% of the dollar value for Program Year 2022 was attributed to teaching hospitals, 47.43% was attributed to physicians and only 3.15% of the dollar value was attributed to physician assistants and advanced nurse practitioners. These trends are consistent with the Program Year 2021 data.
The Open Payments data will be refreshed in early 2024 to reflect any updates made to the data since this publication. To explore the data, visit Open Payments Search Tool.
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Additional Information
Covered Recipient Post Publication Review and Dispute Availability Covered recipients have until December 31, 2023, to review and affirm, or, if necessary, dispute, records attributed to them that were submitted in Calendar Year 2023. Action taken on the data between now and December 31, 2023, will be reflected in the annual data refresh or in a later publication. In order to participate in review and dispute activities, covered recipients must be registered in the Open Payments system. For more information about registration and the review and dispute process visit the Open Payments Covered Recipients page.
Archived Data Data publication occurs for five years from the first publication of the program year data. After a program year reaches its fifth full year of data publication, it is closed and archived. Program Years 2013 – 2015 are archived and are not displayed on the Search Tool. More information about the archiving process and the archived data is available on the Open Payments Archived Datasets page.
Contact Us
For program related questions including registration, review and dispute and data submission questions contact our Help Desk at openpayments@cms.hhs.gov or by phone at 1-855-326-8366 (TTY Line: 1-844-649-2766). The Help Desk is open Monday through Friday, from 9:00am – 5:00pm (ET), excluding federal holidays. Please note that all press inquiries should be submitted to the CMS’ Press Office.
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