Dollars For Docs

Dollars for Docs

By Mike Tigas, Ryann Grochowski Jones, Charles Ornstein, and Lena Groeger, ProPublica. Updated June 28, 2018

Pharmaceutical and medical device companies are required by law to release details of their payments to a variety of doctors and U.S. teaching hospitals for promotional talks, research and consulting, among other categories. Use this tool to search for general payments (excluding research and ownership interests) made from August 2013 to December 2016. | Related Story: Opioid Makers, Blamed for Overdose Epidemic, Cut Bac...

Cash $9.15B in disclosed payments    Doctor 904,922 doctors
Hospital1,216 teaching hospitals    Company2,005 companies

Totals listed below account for all payments from August 2013 to December 2016.

Top 50 Companies

Click on a company to see how its payments break down by drug, device or doctor. Or, see all companies »

COMPANY PAYMENTS
GENENTECH, INC. $1.08B
ZIMMER BIOMET HOLDINGS, INC. $309M
DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS LLC $238M
STRYKER CORPORATION $217M
ASTRAZENECA PHARMACEUTICALS LP $189M
PFIZER INC. $175M
ALLERGAN INC. $172M
ARTHREX, INC. $170M
JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS, INC $157M
MEDTRONIC SOFAMOR DANEK USA, INC. $147M
MEDTRONIC VASCULAR, INC. $145M
SMITH & NEPHEW, INC. $143M
MEDTRONIC USA, INC. $139M
ABBVIE, INC. $131M
GILEAD SCIENCES INC $121M
TOPERA, INC. $119M
GLAXOSMITHKLINE, LLC. $118M
CELGENE CORPORATION $118M
BOSTON SCIENTIFIC CORPORATION $112M
MERCK SHARP & DOHME CORPORATION $111M
INTUITIVE SURGICAL, INC. $105M
NOVARTIS PHARMACEUTICALS CORPORATION $102M
BIOGEN, INC. $99.8M
ST. JUDE MEDICAL, INC. $99M
AMGEN INC. $95.1M
NUVASIVE, INC. $94.1M
E.R. SQUIBB & SONS, L.L.C. $86M
VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS NORTH AMERICA LLC $85.8M
TEVA PHARMACEUTICALS USA, INC. $84.4M
SANOFI-AVENTIS U.S. LLC $82.6M
NOVO NORDISK INC $81.1M
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. $80.8M
GENZYME CORPORATION $78.7M
OTSUKA AMERICA PHARMACEUTICAL, INC. $69.6M
GENENTECH USA, INC. $69.1M
COOK INCORPORATED $69M
TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICALS AMERICA, INC. $66.2M
COVIDIEN LP $58.7M
ALCON LABORATORIES INC $53.4M
DEPUY ORTHOPAEDICS INC. $52.6M
LILLY USA, LLC $52.1M
SUNOVION PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $51.3M
ABBOTT LABORATORIES $48.1M
BIOMET ORTHOPEDICS, LLC $39.2M
GLOBUS MEDICAL, INC. $39.2M
MEDTRONIC NEUROVASCULAR $38.8M
SIEMENS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS USA, INC. $38.2M
BAYER HEALTHCARE PHARMACEUTICALS INC. $36.5M
EISAI INC. $34.9M
ETHICON ENDO-SURGERY INC. $34M

Highest-Earning Doctors

NAME PAYMENTS
STEPHEN BURKHART

Orthopaedic Surgery

 $65.3M
ROGER JACKSON

Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine

 $62.3M
KEVIN FOLEY

Neurological Surgery

 $59.8M
SUJATA NARAYAN

Family Medicine

 $57.1M
KAREN UNDERWOOD

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

 $37.1M

Doctors Paid the Most Often

NAME PAYMENTS
ANA STANKOVIC

Internal Medicine

 3,623
ROBERT BUSCH

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

 3,327
ALVIN WELLS
 2,975
FARHAD ZANGENEH

Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism

 2,865
RUWANI GUNAWARDANE

Neurology

 2,814

Teaching Hospitals Paid the Most

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HOSPITAL PAYMENTS
CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER
 $1.02B
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
 $135M
HOSPITAL OF THE UNIV OF PENNA
 $96M
STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
 $52.9M
CLEVELAND CLINIC HOSPITAL
 $49.2M

Payments in Your State

Click on a state to see payments made to doctors there.

STATE PAYMENTS
California $2.11B
New York $749M
Texas $626M
Florida $470M
Massachusetts $452M
Pennsylvania $430M
Ohio $322M
Illinois $283M
North Carolina $246M
Tennessee $244M
Georgia $218M
Arizona $214M
Michigan $212M
Missouri $209M
New Jersey $206M
Colorado $195M
Washington $176M
Maryland $150M
Virginia $144M
Minnesota $134M
Indiana $113M
Connecticut $99.4M
Wisconsin $98.9M
Kentucky $91.8M
Utah $89.8M
Alabama $73.2M
South Carolina $73M
Louisiana $71M
Oregon $62.2M
Nevada $61.4M
District of Columbia $57.3M
Oklahoma $53.6M
Iowa $45.5M
Arkansas $41.4M
Kansas $40.4M
Mississippi $35.1M
Nebraska $29.6M
Puerto Rico $27.4M
Rhode Island $24.1M
West Virginia $22.1M
New Hampshire $20.6M
Idaho $17.4M
Maine $17M
Hawaii $14.8M
New Mexico $14.5M
Delaware $13.3M
South Dakota $12M
Montana $10.8M
Vermont $6.55M
North Dakota $5.98M
Wyoming $5.05M
Alaska $2.62M
Virgin Islands $80,676
Guam $54,326
Armed Forces Europe $53,206
Armed Forces Pacific $38,625
Armed Forces Americas $4,747
Northern Mariana Islands $804
American Samoa $309

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