CMS Open Payments

CMS Open Payments is a NexGenData tool on Apify that returns physician payments with NPI, amount, type, manufacturer and product from CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) data.

CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act) public records — pharma-to-physician payments by NPI.

Public regulatory/health data — not medical advice.

📊 Sample Output

physician_npi	physician_primary_type	physician_city	physician_zip	manufacturer_name	manufacturer_id
1003988312	Medical Doctor	Spokane	99204-2321	Ancora Heart, Inc.	100000151633
1437613031	Nurse Practitioner	AUBURN	36830-6471	Minerva Surgical, Inc	100000151631
1740532803	Nurse Practitioner	CEDAR RAPIDS	52403-1251	Corium, LLC	100000966856
1962920785	Nurse Practitioner	CONNERSVILLE	47331-2914	Corium, LLC	100000966856
1902362338	Nurse Practitioner	FOLEY	36535-1935	Corium, LLC	100000966856
1770842890	Medical Doctor	EVANSVILLE	47713-1227	Corium, LLC	100000966856

Real rows from run aqh8gi0Rw9VfZNkPJ on build 0.0.6 (2026-09-24), unedited apart from masked emails/phones and shortened long text; fields the source does not publish are empty.

⚙️ Sample inputs

This is the Store example input — the same input Apify's automated check runs — so it is proven to return rows on the current build. Paste it into the input form, or send it through the API, CLI or a schedule:

{
  "year": 2023,
  "payment_type": "general",
  "physician_last_name": "SMITH",
  "max_results": 50
}

🔧 Input reference

Field	Type	Default	What it does
year	integer	2023	Reporting year (CMS publishes one dataset per year per payment type). Latest data publishes annually in June; valid range typically 2013-2024.
payment_type	string (general, research, ownership)	"general"	Which CMS Open Payments dataset to query. 'general' = meals, travel, consulting; 'research' = clinical trial / preclinical research payments; 'ownership' = physician ownership/inv…
physician_npi	string	""	10-digit National Provider Identifier. Most precise filter — returns every payment to that one physician in the chosen year.
physician_last_name	string	"SMITH"	Surname filter (case-insensitive, exact match). Use when you don't have the NPI.
manufacturer_name	string	""	Substring match on the paying manufacturer or GPO. Example: 'Pfizer', 'Medtronic', 'Genentech'.
max_results	integer	50	Maximum number of payment records to return (1-2000). Each record is one CMS Open Payments line item.

🧾 JSON sample record

One real record from run aqh8gi0Rw9VfZNkPJ (emails/phones masked, long text shortened):

{
  "physician_npi": "1003988312",
  "physician_first_name": "Mary",
  "physician_last_name": "Smith",
  "physician_middle_name": "Cristina",
  "physician_suffix": "",
  "physician_specialty": "Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians|Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)",
  "physician_primary_type": "Medical Doctor",
  "physician_license_state": "WA",
  "physician_city": "Spokane",
  "physician_state": "WA",
  "physician_zip": "99204-2321",
  "teaching_hospital_name": "",
  "teaching_hospital_ccn": "",
  "teaching_hospital_id": "",
  "noncovered_recipient_entity_name": null,
  "manufacturer_name": "Ancora Heart, Inc.",
  "manufacturer_id": "100000151633",
  "manufacturer_state": "CA",
  "manufacturer_country": "United States",
  "payment_amount": "39.00",
  "payment_date": "08/11/2023",
  "payment_form": "Cash or cash equivalent",
  "payment_nature": "Food and Beverage",
  "payment_count": "1",
  "city_of_travel": "",
  "state_of_travel": "",
  "country_of_travel": "",
  "physician_ownership_indicator": "No",
  "third_party_payment_recipient_indicator": "No Third Party Payment",
  "name_of_third_party_entity_receiving_payment_or_transfer_of_value": null,
  "charity_indicator": "",
  "name_of_drug_or_biological_or_device_or_medical_supply_1": "AccuCinch",
  "ndc_of_drug_1": null,
  "indicate_drug_or_device_1": "Device",
  "program_year": "2023",
  "payment_publication_date": "06/30/2026",
  "record_id": "971322323",
  "change_type": "UNCHANGED"
}

💰 Pricing

Event	Price (USD)	When it is charged
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$5e-05	Charged when the Actor starts running. Number of events charged depends on Actor memory (one event per GB, minimum one event).
Payment record (apify-default-dataset-item)	$0.05	Single CMS Open Payments record pushed to the dataset.

Pay-per-event: you pay only for what the run delivers. A run that delivers nothing bills no result events (only the actor-start event, when the actor defines one). Example: a run that delivers 100 results costs 100 × $0.05 = $5.00 plus the start fee.

🔗 Related Actors

More from the NexGenData Healthcare & FDA family:

• CMS Hospital Compare — Quality & Ratings Data API
• CMS Nursing Home Compare — Provider Records API
• CMS Open Payments Pro — Sunshine Act + NPI API
• Consumer Product Recall & Safety Intelligence — CPSC
• Doctor Directory Lead Finder — Provider Contacts API
• FDA Adverse Events — FAERS & MAUDE Records API

15 more in this family on the NexGenData Store page.

📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per payment (full output has 38 fields):

• physician_npi — Physician npi
• physician_first_name — Physician first name
• physician_last_name — Physician last name
• physician_middle_name — Physician middle name
• physician_suffix — Physician suffix
• physician_specialty — Physician specialty
• physician_primary_type — Physician primary type
• physician_license_state — Physician license state
• physician_city — Physician city
• physician_state — Physician state

Pricing: $0.050 per payment (Pay-Per-Event) — about 20 payments per $1.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

Agentic payments (x402): Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

🔗 Related regulatory actors

CMS quality & provider records — every CMS compare dataset:

Hospital · Nursing Home · Home Health · Hospice · Dialysis · Open Payments Pro · Medicare Providers

FDA records: OpenFDA Drug · Drug Approvals · Drug Shortages · Purple Book · Warning Letters/483 · Pharma Pipeline · Adverse Events · Medical Devices

Agent front door — Healthcare & FDA MCP: Healthcare & FDA MCP

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Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.

🤖 Use with AI agents

Structured JSON built for LLM and agent pipelines — point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it.

Sample agent prompt:

List AbbVie's 2023 general payments to physicians with amount and nature of payment.