Open Payments data is now available, updated to reflect changes made to the data since publication in June 2022 hereThe dataset is updated annually by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This current dataset contains the following information: Undisputed changes to the record made before November 15, 2022. Updates for Dispute Resolutions Completed Before December 31, 2022. Records deleted before December 31, 2022 have been removed from the database.
Disputed records that are unresolved as of December 31, 2022 will continue to appear as disputed, and records deleted after December 31, 2022 will remain in the database, but will remain in the database until June 2023. It will be deleted when the data is published.
Additionally, records first submitted to the Open Payments system after March 31, 2022 were not included in this update.
Changes for 2021
Program year 2021 is the first year of expansion of the Open Payments program, adding five provider types as eligible recipients of the program: Physician Assistant, Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Nurse Specialist, and Certified Registered Nurse. Anesthesiologist and anesthesiologist assistant, certified nurse midwife.
Program Year 2021 also saw an updated payment type category and new reporting requirements for the “Device Identifier” component of the unique device identifier for medical devices. In addition, CMS is now permitted to publish the intended recipient’s National Provider Identifier (NPI).
Specifications and historical records
Open Payments data for 2021 contained $10.88 billion worth of transactions across 12.08 million published records. This compares to $9.62 billion worth of transactions across 6.48 million records published in 2020 and $11.1 billion worth of transactions across 11.25 million records published in 2019.
In 2021, open payment data This includes $2.55 billion in general payments, $7.07 billion in research expenses, and $1.26 billion in ownership or investment interest. When broken down by recipient, we found 532,745 physicians received payments ($2.03 billion general payments, $66.09 million research payments, and $1.26 billion ownership or investment interest). . 233,368 non-physician practitioners were recorded to have received payments ($120.33 million for him in general payments and $423,392.27 for research). It was noted that 1,234 teaching hospitals received payments ($395.2 million in general payments and $1.6 billion in research). In addition, 1,719 entities were recorded to have made payments.
