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$3.9bn in general payments in 2025 1,023,318 recipients named Program years 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

A payment is not an accusation. Every figure here is what a manufacturer reported to the federal government.

What you can find out

Three questions, answered from the program year 2025 record.

Who paid a teaching hospital, and for what

$549,717,103

Hospital of the Univ of Penna received $549,717,103 in general payments in 2025, across 664 payments. The largest payers were BioNTech SE ($535,836,782) and Chiesi USA, Inc. ($3,776,366). The most money was reported as “Royalty or License”, then “Grant”.

Every payment it received in 2025

Which recipients a company pays

$536,410,036

BioNTech SE reported 147 general payments worth $536,410,036 in 2025 — 13.7% of every company’s general payments that year. Its page ranks the recipients, specialties and states it paid.

Every payment it reported in 2025

How one state compares with another

$172 · $188

The median paid recipient in California received $172 in general payments in 2025; in Texas, $188. The national median was $169, across 1,022,575 recipients.

Compare every state

Research paths

Where to start when the question is bigger than one name.

Program year 2025 in figures

How to read these figures · The whole year

Three kinds of money, kept apart

General payments: $3,923,550,963 · 16,131,856 records
Research payments: $9,497,235,059 · 931,959 records
Ownership interests: $1,250,199,170 · 2,646 records

No combined total Three kinds of money reported under three different rules. Adding them produces a number that means nothing, so this site never shows one.

Where general payments landed

PA 18.2% CA 10.8% NY 6.6% TX 6.2% FL 5.9% MA 4.7% IL 3.2% OH 3.2% MO 3.2% MI 2.8% NC 2.6% VA 2.4% TN 2.3% GA 2.2% MD 2.1% AZ 1.9% NJ 1.8% CO 1.8% WA 1.8% MN 1.4% WI 1.2% IN 1.1% CT 1.1% SC 1.1% KY 1% KS 0.9% AL 0.9% LA 0.9% UT 0.8% DC 0.6% OK 0.6% OR 0.6% NV 0.5% IA 0.4% MS 0.4% AR 0.3% NE 0.3% ID 0.3% WV 0.2% RI 0.2% NH 0.2% SD 0.2% NM 0.2% PR 0.2% HI 0.2% DE 0.1% ME 0.1% MT 0.1% VT 0.1% ND 0.1% WY 0.1% AK 0% GU 0% AP 0% AE 0% VI 0% MP 0% AA 0% AS 0%

Every state by median, mean and total

What general payments were for largest 10 of 16

Royalty or License $1.2bn
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $751.9m
Consulting Fee $649m
Food and Beverage $443.4m
Acquisitions $223.9m
Travel and Lodging $209.7m
Grant $121.7m
Honoraria $80.5m
Education $69.9m
Debt forgiveness $48.6m

Read it right

A payment is not an accusation.

Industry and medicine work together legally, and research often depends on it. A meal is a meal; a trial grant is a trial grant.

What the payments mean

Three kinds of money are never added.

General payments, research funding and ownership interests follow different rules. Read each figure beside its kind.

Why they stay apart

A name is not an identity.

More than a quarter of profiles share a name. Check the city, specialty and NPI before you attribute a record to anyone.

How we read the data

If a record about you is wrong, CMS runs the dispute process — here is how it works.

For journalists and researchers

CSV: Free, no sign-in. Every records list, leaderboard and the state table, in files of 5,000 rows with plain-English headers and a provenance row naming the program years, filters and download date.
Citation: Who Paid My Doc, citing CMS Open Payments, program year 2025. whopaidmydoc.com/… For a single payment, add its CMS record ID.
Coverage: Program years 2019–2025, as CMS published them. We reproduce the record; we do not verify, edit or correct it.
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