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CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Pfizer Inc.
Pfizer Inc. reported $673,656,926.85 across General Payments, Research, and Ownership to 570,295 physicians and teaching hospitals across 606,504 transactions.
- $673.7M Top 1% payer
- All-tracks total
- 606,504 Top 1% volume
- Transactions
- 570,295 Top 1% reach
- Recipients
- +$6.7M
- General Payments vs PY2023
Pfizer Inc. reported $673,656,926.85 across all CMS Open Payments tracks (General + Research + Ownership) to 570,295 physicians and teaching hospitals in Program Year 2024 - ranking #2 of 1,925 reporting manufacturers (4.8% of the all-tracks industry total); General Payments alone were $43,510,451.65, averaging $1.2K per recipient.
How Pfizer Inc.'s $673.7M all-tracks total breaks down
Pfizer Inc.'s payment reach score
Each tracked dimension is percentile-scored against the national companies corpus, then averaged across only the dimensions that apply to this company, a neutral scale measure of reporting activity, not a rating of quality, safety, or ethics.
Overall reach score
A
100/100
Total payments
A
100/100
Transaction volume
A
100/100
Physician reach
A
100/100
Payment type diversity
A
100/100
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CMS Sunshine Act warrant
Manufacturer pfizer-inc Pfizer Inc.
$673.7M · #2/1,925 · 4.8% industry · PY2024
- TOT $673.7M
- RANK #2
- SHARE 4.8%
- TXN 606,504
- RCP 570,295
- CAT 12
- GEN $43.5M
- ΔGEN +$6.7M
- TOP1 1.8%
- PY 2024
Volume peers
Nearest volume peer: Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation ($676.0M)
Pfizer Inc. sits among 1,925 manufacturers disclosing under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Volume peers below are nearest by all-tracks total, not corporate affiliates. Open the company rankings →
Release-over-release change
General Payments changed from PY2023 to PY2024
Pfizer Inc.'s CMS-reported General Payments increased by $6.7M (+18.3%) from PY2023 to PY2024.
How this year-over-year comparison is scoped
The comparison uses consecutive CMS program years only (current = prior + 1) from the manufacturer General Payments summary and excludes research and ownership or investment records. Non-consecutive year pairs are not shown as year-over-year change. This General Payments figure is not the all-tracks company total in the hero.
CMS source labels for this exact identifier: PY2022: PFIZER INC.PY2023: PFIZER INC.PY2024: PFIZER INC.. Matching identifiers support a bounded record comparison; a label difference would be reported as unresolved rather than treated as a corporate event.
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General Payments: PY2023 vs PY2024
Annual CMS-reported totals for this company, not an all-category Open Payments total
- PY2023
- $36,770,354.22
- PY2024
- $43,510,451.65
What the Data Shows for Pfizer Inc.
CMS Open Payments is not a single ledger: the all-tracks total shown above is General Payments plus Research Payments plus Ownership/Investment interests, each with its own disclosure rules. For Pfizer Inc., that total blends General Payments (day-to-day consulting, meals, travel and speaking fees, shown separately above) with Research and Ownership/Investment interest records, each governed by its own CMS reporting rules. Data for a given Program Year arrives roughly a year after the period it covers; our methodology page documents the release cadence and how we standardize the tracks for cross-company comparison.
The 12-category breakdown below covers general payments only (see our methodology for how research and ownership payments are reported separately). The largest general-payment category is "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" at $15.8M, accounting for 36.3% of this company's General Payments and 4,539 transactions.
General Payment Breakdown by Type
Across 12 types of general payments, Pfizer Inc.'s largest category was "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" at $15.8M - 36.3% of General Payments.
Pfizer Inc. reports 12 general-payment categories - the top three are Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting (36.3%), Food and Beverage (24.0%), and Consulting Fee (19.4%). The remaining 9 categories make up 20.4% of this company's reported general-payment total. That multi-category mix is the kind of profile single-category reporters cannot show.
Category breadth matters here: Pfizer Inc. files across 12 named CMS general-payment types in Program Year 2024, versus manufacturers that report a single dominant category. The chart and table below enumerate every type with an amount above zero for this company.
How Pfizer Inc. divides its payments
Ranked by total dollars reported per category
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $15.8M | 4,539 | 36.3% |
| Food and Beverage | $10.4M | 553,199 | 24.0% |
| Consulting Fee | $8.4M | 2,107 | 19.4% |
| Grant | $4.8M | 72 | 11.0% |
| Travel and Lodging | $2.7M | 5,105 | 6.1% |
| Honoraria | $773.5K | 317 | 1.8% |
| Education | $236.6K | 4,916 | 0.5% |
| Royalty or License | $161.9K | 6 | 0.4% |
| Charitable Contribution | $160.9K | 10 | 0.4% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $67.8K | 20 | 0.2% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $36.3K | 1 | 0.1% |
| Entertainment | $5.6K | 3 | 0.0% |
Recipient Concentration in General Payments
The five largest recipient relationships account for $2,822,118.15 (6.5%) of $43,510,451.65 in this company's General Payments records across 149,821 recipients.
General Payments scope note
Program Year 2024 General Payments view only: excludes research and ownership/investment records, so it is not the all-category company total above.
Largest General-Payment relationships for Pfizer Inc.
The five named recipients with the highest reported General Payments from this company
- 1
Henry Ford Hospital
$762,450.00 across 7 reported transactions
- 2
University of Washington Med Ctr
$536,918.15 across 9 reported transactions
- 3
Marc Braunstein
$510,500.00 across 13 reported transactions
- 4
Massachusetts General Hospital
$507,500.00 across 2 reported transactions
- 5
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
$504,750.00 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.
Spend vs. Concentration
Pfizer Inc. ranks #2 of 1,925 by total payments (top 1% by spend) but spreads that money notably more broadly than its spend rank alone would suggest -- #1,812 of 1,838 by HHI (bottom 1% least concentrated), a wider distribution than most similarly sized payers.
View all 12 companies in this HHI neighborhood as a list
- OptumHealth Care Solutions, LLC : $44.5K total payments, HHI 24
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc. : $24.4M total payments, HHI 24
- Abbott Laboratories : $38.3M total payments, HHI 23
- ABC Home Medical Supply, Inc. : $21.4K total payments, HHI 22
- AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP : $64.7M total payments, HHI 22
- Forte Bio-Pharma LLC : $118.4K total payments, HHI 22
- Pfizer Inc. (this company) : $43.5M total payments, HHI 22
- Orexo US, Inc. : $36.3K total payments, HHI 20
- Genentech USA, Inc. : $8.5M total payments, HHI 20
- Seagen Inc. : $52.4K total payments, HHI 20
- Valinor Pharma, LLC : $65.8K total payments, HHI 20
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. : $24.7M total payments, HHI 19
Similarly Concentrated Companies
Companies whose General Payments are spread across recipients about as (un)evenly as Pfizer Inc.'s, measured by the same HHI concentration index above, not by payment size.
What HHI 2,500 means here
2,500 is the DOJ/FTC merger-guidelines threshold for "highly concentrated" markets; used here only as a familiar concentration reference, not a legal finding about Pfizer Inc..
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Put this to use
Pfizer Inc. ranks #2 of 1,925 by all-tracks total payments, led by "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting".
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- Compare "Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting" spend across every manufacturer, not just Pfizer Inc.. Payment type breakdowns
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Reported payments reflect what companies disclosed to CMS; a payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.
Data sourced from CMS Open Payments (Physician Payments Sunshine Act). See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainPharmaWatch
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