PlainPharmaWatch

CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024

Eli Lilly and Company

Eli Lilly and Company reported $652,434,100.20 in payments to 8,748 physicians and teaching hospitals across 21,268 transactions.

See the rankings → How this is sourced
$652.4M
Total payments
21,268
Transactions
8,748
Recipients
+$2.4M
General Payments vs PY2023

Eli Lilly and Company reported $652,434,100.20 in payments to 8,748 physicians and teaching hospitals in CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024 - ranking #4 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (4.7% of all US industry payments), averaging $74.6K per recipient across 7 payment categories. Figures are company-reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; a reported payment is a financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing.

Data currency: Figures are rendered from the processed CMS Open Payments release. See our methodology for source dates and refresh cadence. Spot a figure that looks wrong? Report a correction.

Compiled from official public sources by the editorial team.

The verdict

Eli Lilly and Company pairs top-1% payment volume with a broadly spread payment pattern across many recipients.

#4
of 1,925 companies
4.7%
of all US industry payments
0.2%
paid to its single top recipient
7
payment categories

Release-over-release change

General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024

Eli Lilly and Company's CMS-reported General Payments increased by $2.4M (+42.3%) from PY2023 to PY2024. The comparison uses the same CMS manufacturer-by-payment-category summary for both years and excludes research and ownership or investment records.

CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: ELI LILLY AND COMPANYPY2023: ELI LILLY AND COMPANYPY2024: Eli Lilly and Company. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.

Subscribe to this company's source-bounded update feed It publishes only identifier-matched CMS release comparisons, never inferred company events.

General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024

Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total

PY2023$5.6MPY2024$8.0M
PY2023
$5,612,963.99
PY2024
$7,986,490.68

How Eli Lilly and Company ranks nationally

Where this company's total reported payments fall within the full national distribution of all 1,925 companies in CMS Open Payments, not just its nearest peers.

Eli Lilly and Company's total vs. every reporting company

CMS Open Payments, Program Year 2024

$652,434,100 Top 1% higher than 99% of 1,925 reporting companies

$9–$28: 3 reporting companies (0%). Below this entry. $28–$87: 10 reporting companies (1%). Below this entry. $87–$270: 20 reporting companies (1%). Below this entry. $270–$838: 41 reporting companies (2%). Below this entry. $838–$2,603: 76 reporting companies (4%). Below this entry. $2,603–$8,084: 114 reporting companies (6%). Below this entry. $8,084–$25,112: 167 reporting companies (9%). Below this entry. $25,112–$78,003: 249 reporting companies (13%). Below this entry. $78,003–$242,294: 295 reporting companies (15%). Below this entry. $242,294–$752,621: 270 reporting companies (14%). Below this entry. $752,621–$2,337,813: 263 reporting companies (14%). Below this entry. $2,337,813–$7,261,783: 200 reporting companies (10%). Below this entry. $7,261,783–$22,556,757: 133 reporting companies (7%). Below this entry. $22,556,757–$70,066,439: 45 reporting companies (2%). Below this entry. $70,066,439–$217,642,369: 26 reporting companies (1%). Below this entry. $217,642,369–$676,046,922: 13 reporting companies (1%). This entry sits in this band. This company $9 $676,046,922 every reporting company, bucketed by value

Each bar is a progressively wider band; taller bars hold more reporting companies. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source CMS Open Payments · 2024

What the Data Shows for Eli Lilly and Company

Averaging $30.7K per transaction and $74.6K per recipient, Eli Lilly and Company's Program Year 2024 total comes to $652,434,100.20 across 21,268 transactions and 8,748 physicians and teaching hospitals. In the CMS Open Payments database that is good for rank #4 of 1,925 companies, a top-tier 4.7% share of all industry payments reported nationwide for the year.

1,289 transactions worth $3.9M make "Consulting Fee" the top general-payment category in the 7-category breakdown below, 0.6% of the reported total (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately).

General Payment Breakdown by Type

Eli Lilly and Company made 7 types of general payments. "Consulting Fee" is the largest category at $3.9M, 0.6% of the company's reported total.

How Eli Lilly and Company divides its payments

Top payment categories by total reported dollar volume

1. Consulting Fee$3.9M2. Grant$2.1M3. Compensation for Services…$930.6K4. Travel and Lodging$922.3K5. Food and Beverage$155.0K6. Charitable Contribution$9.7K7. Education$8.8K
Payment Type Amount Transactions
Consulting Fee $3.9M 1,289
Grant $2.1M 6
Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting $930.6K 269
Travel and Lodging $922.3K 3,855
Food and Beverage $155.0K 3,306
Charitable Contribution $9.7K 1
Education $8.8K 22

Recipient Concentration in General Payments

The five largest recipient relationships account for $2,593,139.49 (32.5%) of $7,986,490.68 in this company's General Payments records across 1,046 recipients. This is a CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: it excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.

Largest General-Payment relationships for Eli Lilly and Company

The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company

Board of Trustees of the Uni…$1.5MTufts Medical Center$500.0KMilton Packer$232.1KMarschall Stevens Runge$229.5KBharathi Vennapusa$131.5K
  1. 1

    Board of Trustees of the University

    $1,500,000.00 across 1 reported transactions

  2. 2

    Tufts Medical Center

    $500,000.00 across 2 reported transactions

  3. 3

    Milton Packer

    $232,119.07 across 20 reported transactions

  4. 4

    Marschall Stevens Runge

    $229,546.67 across 36 reported transactions

  5. 5

    Bharathi Vennapusa

    $131,473.75 across 11 reported transactions

Compare this company's payment profile with similarly sized manufacturers in the company comparison tool, and consult the methodology for the CMS source scope.

Payment Size Analysis

Average transaction size: $30.7K. Average per recipient: $74.6K.

Total Amount

$652,434,100.20

Avg per Transaction

$30.7K

Avg per Recipient

$74.6K

Payment Transparency Context

What is the Sunshine Act?

The Physician Payments Sunshine Act (part of the Affordable Care Act) requires pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals. These payments can include consulting fees, research grants, speaker fees, food and beverages, travel, royalties, and other forms of compensation.

Industry Total (2024)

$13.9B

across 1,925 companies

Eli Lilly and Company Share

4.7%

#4 by total payments

Companies with Similar Payment Volumes

Pharmaceutical companies with payment totals similar to Eli Lilly and Company

ModernaTX, Inc.

$665.3M 3,173 recipients

Pfizer Inc.

$673.7M 570,295 recipients

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation

$676.0M 411,238 recipients

Abbvie Inc.

$607.8M 1,721,235 recipients

Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC

$525.2M 216,602 recipients

AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP

$428.2M 858,609 recipients

Frequently Asked Questions

How much did Eli Lilly and Company pay to physicians and hospitals in 2024? ▾
Eli Lilly and Company made $652,434,100.20 in payments to physicians and hospitals in Program Year 2024, across 21,268 individual transactions. This represents 4.7% of all industry payments reported to CMS Open Payments.
How many physicians received payments from Eli Lilly and Company? ▾
8,748 physicians and teaching hospitals received payments from Eli Lilly and Company in 2024, averaging $74.6K per recipient.
What types of payments did Eli Lilly and Company make? ▾
General payments from Eli Lilly and Company span 7 distinct categories, covering things like consulting, meals, and travel. The largest general-payment category was "Consulting Fee" at $3.9M, representing 0.6% of the company's reported total.
How does Eli Lilly and Company rank among pharmaceutical companies? ▾
Out of 1,925 companies in the CMS Open Payments database for 2024, Eli Lilly and Company ranks #4 by total payment amount.
What is the average payment size from Eli Lilly and Company? ▾
The average transaction from Eli Lilly and Company was $30.7K in 2024. The company made 21,268 total transactions to 8,748 recipients.
Where does the payment data for Eli Lilly and Company come from? ▾
This data comes from the CMS Open Payments program (Sunshine Act), which requires pharmaceutical and medical device companies to report payments and transfers of value to physicians and teaching hospitals. The data covers Program Year 2024.

Data Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Open Payments, Program Year 2024. Data includes general payments, research payments, and physician ownership/investment interests as required by the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Total industry payments: $13.9B across 1,925 companies.

Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch Editorial
Disclaimer

This information is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute professional advice. Data is sourced from the CMS Open Payments program. Consult a qualified professional before making decisions based on this data.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

View saved (companies)
Download Eli Lilly and Company's data (CSV)
Embed this widget

Copy this snippet to embed a live-linked card on your own site.

Every figure on PlainPharmaWatch is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page draws directly on federal source data, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-07-25.