Every entity in the CMS Open Payments database — Sunshine Act-mandated disclosures of pharmaceutical and medical device payments to US physicians and teaching hospitals. Physicians (~30k top-paid): every doctor with >= $5,000 lifetime general payments OR >= $50k research grants, ranked by total amount with NPI, specialty, city, state. Teaching Hospitals (1,470): every Medicare-certified teaching hospital that receives industry payments. Reporting Entities (2,900): every pharma/device manufacturer required to report (Merck, Pfizer, Stryker, Medtronic, etc.). Pre-aggregated by year via DKAN API. Source: openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/api/1/datastore/query (no auth). The Sunshine Act exists because this data WAS hidden from the public — we expose every dollar.

Live API

This dataset is served via a live REST API at api.ai-analytics.org. The card you're reading exists so HuggingFace's index can route AI agents + researchers to the canonical source.

API endpoint: https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/open-payments/top
Dataset landing page: https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/open-payments-recipients
DataCatalog (JSON-LD): https://api.ai-analytics.org/.well-known/dataset.json
DCAT-US (data.gov-compatible): https://api.ai-analytics.org/data.json

Quick start

# Recent records (JSON)
curl 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/api/v1/open-payments/top?limit=10'

# Browse on the web
open 'https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/open-payments-recipients'

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

This dataset is also accessible via MCP at https://api.ai-analytics.org/mcp — Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible agents can call it directly.

Source

Agency: US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Primary source: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/
License: CC0 1.0 Universal (derived data). Underlying federal works are US public domain under 5 USC 105 / 17 USC 105.
Update cadence: Per agency (most refresh daily via Cloudflare Cron Trigger)

Keywords

Open Payments, Sunshine Act, Physician Payment Sunshine Act, pharmaceutical payments to doctors, industry payments, medical device payments, NPI, teaching hospital, consulting fees

Citation

@misc{ai_analytics_open_payments_recipients_2026,
  title  = {{name}},
  author = {AI Analytics},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://api.ai-analytics.org/datasets/open-payments-recipients},
  note   = {Derived from US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. License: CC0 1.0.}
}

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