CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Connecticut
Connecticut received $35,331,822.87 in pharmaceutical-industry payments to 9,123 physicians and 19 teaching hospitals across 212,419 transactions.
- $35.3M
- Total payments
- $29.6M
- To physicians
- $2.3M
- To teaching hospitals
- #23
- of 59 states
In CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies reported $35.3M in payments to 9,123 physicians and 19 teaching hospitals in Connecticut. That ranks Connecticut #23 of 59 states and territories (0.3% of the US total), averaging $3.2K 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
Connecticut pairs above-median payment volume with a physician-heavy payment mix.
- #23
- of 59 states
- 0.3%
- of the national total
- 83.7%
- to physicians vs. hospitals
- 9,123
- physicians paid
What the Data Shows for Connecticut
Connecticut sits in the middle volume tercile at #23 of 59 (0.3% of US dollars), with $35,331,822.87 reaching 9,123 physicians and 19 teaching hospitals.
Physician versus hospital mix is near the corpus middle (83.7% / 6.5%). Average transaction $166.33. Leading nature of payment: "Consulting Fee" at $9.8M (27.7% of the state file; top-three natures 70.7%).
Connecticut sits in the 63rd percentile (mid-pack). Just above: Alabama ($36.5M). Just below: South Carolina ($35.1M). For context: top-ranked California ($342.4M) is 9.7× larger than Connecticut. CMS Sunshine Act framework and methodology.
Physician vs Hospital Payments
How pharmaceutical payments in Connecticut are distributed between physicians and teaching hospitals.
Physician Payments
$29.6M
83.7% of total · 9,123 recipients · $3.2K avg
Teaching Hospital Payments
$2.3M
6.5% of total · 19 hospitals · $121.6K avg
Payment Breakdown by Type
Connecticut has 16 types of pharmaceutical payments. "Consulting Fee" accounts for 27.7%.
Nature concentration in Connecticut
Top three Open Payments natures are 70.7% of state dollars; residual is every other reported nature
Payment categories in Connecticut
Top categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Consulting Fee | $9.8M | 3,129 | 27.7% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $9.7M | 3,700 | 27.4% |
| Food and Beverage | $5.5M | 193,710 | 15.6% |
| Travel and Lodging | $3.1M | 7,530 | 8.8% |
| Royalty or License | $2.4M | 148 | 6.7% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $1.1M | 174 | 3.1% |
| Grant | $1.1M | 71 | 3.0% |
| Long-Term Medical Supply or Device Loan | $727.3K | 148 | 2.1% |
| Honoraria | $514.2K | 192 | 1.5% |
| Education | $449.0K | 2,938 | 1.3% |
| Acquisitions | $397.4K | 18 | 1.1% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $360.8K | 203 | 1.0% |
| Debt Forgiveness | $202.9K | 62 | 0.6% |
| Gift | $46.2K | 326 | 0.1% |
| Charitable Contribution | $30.6K | 15 | 0.1% |
| Entertainment | $6.1K | 55 | 0.0% |
Read with this Connecticut 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: Alabama ($36.5M)
- Next lower total: South Carolina ($35.1M)
- Nearest physician-share mix: South Carolina (83.6% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: New Mexico (82.9% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: California (84.5% to physicians)
- National catalog for leading nature here: Consulting Fee (27.7% of Connecticut)
- State payment rankings (includes Connecticut at #23)
- 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 Connecticut totals can and cannot tell you
The aggregate payment figure for Connecticut 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.