CMS Open Payments · Program Year 2024
Mississippi
Mississippi received $15,155,463.75 in pharmaceutical-industry payments to 6,287 physicians and 11 teaching hospitals across 188,263 transactions.
- $15.2M
- Total payments
- $11.3M
- To physicians
- $610.5K
- To teaching hospitals
- #36
- of 59 states
In CMS Open Payments Program Year 2024, pharmaceutical and medical-device companies reported $15.2M in payments to 6,287 physicians and 11 teaching hospitals in Mississippi. That ranks Mississippi #36 of 59 states and territories (0.1% of the US total), averaging $1.8K 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
Mississippi pairs below-median payment volume with a physician-heavy payment mix.
- #36
- of 59 states
- 0.1%
- of the national total
- 74.3%
- to physicians vs. hospitals
- 6,287
- physicians paid
What the Data Shows for Mississippi
Mississippi's Open Payments file is hospital-weighted: 4.0% of $15.2M went to 11 teaching hospitals ($55.5K each), with 74.3% on 6,287 physicians.
Volume rank is #36 of 59: mid-pack dollars with the mix as the distinctive cut. Average transaction $80.50. Leading nature of payment: "Food and Beverage" at $4.2M (27.5% of the state file; top-three natures 70.9%).
Mississippi sits in the 41st percentile (lower-volume tier). Just above: Iowa ($17.6M). Just below: Arkansas ($13.3M). For context: top-ranked California ($342.4M) is 22.6× larger than Mississippi. CMS Sunshine Act framework and methodology.
Physician vs Hospital Payments
How pharmaceutical payments in Mississippi are distributed between physicians and teaching hospitals.
Physician Payments
$11.3M
74.3% of total · 6,287 recipients · $1.8K avg
Teaching Hospital Payments
$610.5K
4.0% of total · 11 hospitals · $55.5K avg
Payment Breakdown by Type
Mississippi has 15 types of pharmaceutical payments. "Food and Beverage" accounts for 27.5%.
Nature concentration in Mississippi
Top three Open Payments natures are 70.9% of state dollars; residual is every other reported nature
Payment categories in Mississippi
Top categories by total reported dollar volume
| Payment Type | Amount | Transactions | % of State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food and Beverage | $4.2M | 179,461 | 27.5% |
| Compensation for Services Other Than Consulting | $4.2M | 1,982 | 27.4% |
| Consulting Fee | $2.4M | 727 | 16.0% |
| Travel and Lodging | $1.3M | 3,998 | 8.6% |
| Debt Forgiveness | $914.4K | 60 | 6.0% |
| Education | $497.7K | 1,299 | 3.3% |
| Royalty or License | $491.7K | 50 | 3.2% |
| Grant | $423.9K | 56 | 2.8% |
| Long-Term Medical Supply or Device Loan | $260.1K | 118 | 1.7% |
| Compensation for Faculty or Speaker (Medical Education) | $224.2K | 124 | 1.5% |
| Honoraria | $148.3K | 81 | 1.0% |
| Space Rental or Facility Fees | $113.9K | 67 | 0.8% |
| Gift | $22.1K | 202 | 0.1% |
| Entertainment | $4.9K | 36 | 0.0% |
| Charitable Contribution | $4.6K | 2 | 0.0% |
Read with this Mississippi 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: Iowa ($17.6M)
- Next lower total: Arkansas ($13.3M)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Colorado (74.5% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: Indiana (75.1% to physicians)
- Nearest physician-share mix: New Hampshire (75.1% to physicians)
- National catalog for leading nature here: Food and Beverage (27.5% of Mississippi)
- State payment rankings (includes Mississippi at #36)
- 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 Mississippi totals can and cannot tell you
The aggregate payment figure for Mississippi 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.