CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
American Samoa
American Samoa received $731.62 in pharmaceutical-industry payments to 2 physicians and 0 teaching hospitals across 10 transactions.
- $731.62
- Total payments
- $731.62
- To physicians
- $0.00
- To teaching hospitals
- #57
- of 59 states
In CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies reported $731.62 in payments to 2 physicians and 0 teaching hospitals in American Samoa. That ranks American Samoa #57 of 59 states and territories (0.0% of the US total), averaging $365.81 per physician. Figures are company-reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; a reported payment is a financial relationship, not evidence of wrongdoing.
The verdict
American Samoa pairs modest payment volume with an overwhelmingly physician-directed payment mix.
- #57
- of 59 states
- 0.0%
- of the national total
- 100.0%
- to physicians vs. hospitals
- 2
- physicians paid
What the Data Shows for American Samoa
American Samoa's Open Payments file is physician-weighted: 100.0% of $731.62 went to 2 physicians ($365.81 each), with 0.0% on 0 teaching hospitals.
On the national dollar ranking it is #57 of 59, so the mix skew is larger than the volume rank. Average transaction $73.16. Leading nature of payment: "Food and Beverage" at $731.62 (100.0% of the state file; top-three natures 100.0%).
American Samoa sits in the 5th percentile (lower-volume tier). Just above: Guam ($13.1K). Just below: Northern Mariana Islands ($658.59). For context: top-ranked California ($342.4M) is 467985.3× larger than American Samoa. CMS Sunshine Act framework and methodology.
Physician vs Hospital Payments
How pharmaceutical payments in American Samoa are distributed between physicians and teaching hospitals.
Physician Payments
$731.62
100.0% of total · 2 recipients · $365.81 avg
Teaching Hospital Payments
$0.00
0.0% of total · 0 hospitals · $0.00 avg
Payment Breakdown by Type
American Samoa has 1 types of pharmaceutical payments. "Food and Beverage" accounts for 100.0%.
Payment categories in American Samoa
Top categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $731.62 | 10 | 100.0% |
Read with this American Samoa Open Payments read
Volume neighbors, physician-share peers, and the national nature catalog, not the same three guides on every state page.
- Next higher total: Guam ($13.1K)
- Next lower total: Northern Mariana Islands ($658.59)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Puerto Rico (98.1% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Armed Forces Europe (97.4% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Hawaii (97.3% to physicians)
- National catalog for leading nature here: Food and Beverage (100.0% of American Samoa)
- State payment rankings (includes American Samoa at #57)
- How Open Payments natures are defined
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Source: CMS Open Payments Database Industry payments to physicians and teaching hospitals · 2024
What American Samoa totals can and cannot tell you
The aggregate payment figure for American Samoa measures reportable industry–physician engagement inside this state's geographic footprint for Program Year 2024, not any one physician's or hospital's relationship with industry. CMS collects the data under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act; manufacturers must report transfers of value above the de minimis threshold. The file does not capture DTC advertising, internal R&D, wholesale drug pricing, or salary support that is not a reportable transfer of value.
Correlations between payment receipt and prescribing appear in peer-reviewed work for specific drugs and specialties, but this page's state total does not establish causation. Open the company and recipient detail pages for category and year-over-year cuts.
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 2026-07-26.