Largest Pharma Companies
Companies that made the highest total payments to healthcare providers.
- 1 Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $676.0M
- 2 PFIZER INC. $673.7M
- 3 ModernaTX, Inc. $665.3M
- 4 Eli Lilly and Company $652.4M
- 5 ABBVIE INC. $607.8M
CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Pharma payment rankings
Six source-bounded views of reported General Payments to U.S. health care providers. A payment is a disclosed financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing.
- 6
- distinct leaderboards
- 1,925
- companies in the payment corpus
- $13.9B
- reported General Payments
- 24%
- held by the top five companies shown
The payment picture
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation leads the company table at $676.0M, while California has the largest state total at $342.4M.
- $676.0M
- Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, largest company total
- $342.4M
- California, largest state total
- 23.6%
- of the reported total in the five-company preview
- PY2024
- latest CMS program year used here
The leaderboards describe reported payments. They do not measure prescribing, clinical quality, or misconduct.
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Company and state totals show volume. Per-physician figures adjust for the number of physician recipients. Recipient lists show disclosed totals, not a judgment about the people named.
Highest Payment States
States where pharmaceutical companies spent the most on healthcare providers.
- 1 California $342.4M
- 2 Florida $334.6M
- 3 Pennsylvania $305.4M
- 4 Massachusetts $230.3M
- 5 Texas $224.7M
Highest Per-Physician Spending
States with the highest average pharma payment per physician.
- 1 Hawaii $10.1K
- 2 District of Columbia $5.9K
- 3 Minnesota $5.8K
- 4 Florida $5.5K
- 5 Kansas $5.0K
Top Recipient Physicians
Individual physicians who received the largest total payments from pharma companies.
- 1 CHARLES GOODIS $91.1M
- 2 ROBERT MEDOFF $26.7M
- 3 CHARLES DECOOK $26.2M
- 4 ANDREW COOPER $25.3M
- 5 NITIN GOYAL $25.0M
Top Recipient Hospitals
Teaching hospitals that received the largest total payments from pharma companies.
- 1 Hospital Of The Univ Of Penna $190.0M
- 2 Dana-farber Cancer Institute $72.6M
- 3 Univ Of Missouri Health Care $64.8M
- 4 Massachusetts General Hospital $40.0M
- 5 Univ Of Mi Hospitals & Hlth Ctrs $26.7M
Most Transactions
Companies with the highest number of individual payment transactions.
- 1 ABBVIE INC. 1,766,164
- 2 AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP 864,383
- 3 PFIZER INC. 606,504
- 4 Lilly USA, LLC 544,519
- 5 Novo Nordisk Inc 497,147
How to read the rankings
CMS requires applicable manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to report transfers of value. PlainPharmaWatch groups the current annual release by reporting company, recipient state, recipient, and payment category so each table can be checked against its detail pages.
Totals do not show whether a payment affected patient care or prescribing. High recipient totals can reflect research, royalties, clinical-trial work, speaking, travel, or other reported activity. Read the CMS context and the methodology before drawing conclusions about a person or organization.
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