CMS Open Payments API — Physician × Manufacturer Roll-up (Sunshine Act)

A CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) API: look up physician or manufacturer general payments by name, NPI, or manufacturer, and roll them up per physician × manufacturer — total USD, payment count, date range, and payment-type mix. Turn millions of disclosure rows into a compliance-ready summary. Keyless, official CMS source.

Who it's for

• Pharma / medtech compliance teams auditing physician payment exposure.
• Investigative & policy researchers analyzing industry-to-physician money.
• Healthcare due-diligence & journalists profiling a physician or maker.
• AI agents needing a "look up Open Payments" tool.

What it does

Queries CMS Open Payments general payments by physician (name / NPI / profile ID) or manufacturer, then aggregates each physician × manufacturer pair into one row: total dollars, number of payments, first/last payment dates, and a breakdown by payment type (consulting, food & beverage, travel, etc.). Optional specialty enrichment.

Example input

{
  "lastName": "smith",
  "firstName": "john",
  "programYear": "2023",
  "includeSpecialty": true,
  "maxResults": 200
}

Output (per physician × manufacturer)

physician_name, npi, specialty, manufacturer, total_amount_usd, payment_count, first_payment_date, last_payment_date, and payment_type_mix.

Use as an MCP tool

Available to AI agents via mcp.apify.com as an "Open Payments lookup" tool — name or NPI in, rolled-up payment summary out.

FAQ

What is Open Payments / the Sunshine Act? CMS's public record of payments from drug & device makers to physicians. Can I search by NPI? Yes — by name, NPI, or profile ID, or by manufacturer. Is it aggregated? Yes — rolled up per physician × manufacturer. Is it keyless? Yes, official CMS source.

Source

openpaymentsdata.cms.gov (DKAN2 datastore, paginated at 500/req). Official, keyless.

Pricing (Pay Per Result)

Billed per roll-up record returned. Empty searches cost nothing.