Developers

The GlassScript data API

Normalized, context-enriched CMS Open Payments data over plain JSON: clinician search, seven-year payment trends, percentile benchmarks, and drug and device maker links.

What you get

Search that works. Typo-tolerant clinician search with state filters, plus drug, device, and company lookups.
Context, not just totals. Yearly trends across 2019-2025, nature-of-payment breakdowns, and percentile benchmarks against specialty, state, and national peers.
Product associations. Which drugs and devices payments were associated with (2023-2025), as reported by the paying companies. These are associations, not allocations.
Provenance on every response. Each payload carries the data version, publication date, and covered years, so downstream displays can always say where a figure came from.

Who it's for

Care navigationShow patients payment context next to provider choices, with the calm framing built in.

Telehealth platformsAdd disclosure context to provider profiles without building an Open Payments pipeline.

Legal and research teamsQuery normalized totals, trends, and benchmarks instead of parsing CMS publication files.

JournalistsCheck a name, pull seven years of figures, and cite the exact data version. Free keys available.

Quickstart

Check the data version and counts. No key needed:

curl https://glasscript.com/api/v1/meta

Search physicians by name, filtered to a state:

curl "https://glasscript.com/api/v1/physicians/search?q=smith&state=TX" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer gsk_your_key"

Fetch one physician's full document: yearly trends, payment natures, company and product breakdowns, and benchmarks:

curl https://glasscript.com/api/v1/physicians/123456 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer gsk_your_key"

Response envelope

Every response wraps its payload in the same envelope. The meta block travels with the data.

{
  "data": [
    {
      "profile_id": 123456,
      "npi": "1234567890",
      "first_name": "Jane",
      "middle_name": "A",
      "last_name": "Smith",
      "specialty": "Cardiovascular Disease",
      "city": "Houston",
      "state": "TX",
      "total_all": 18240.55,
      "total_latest": 2210.4,
      "pct_specialty": 84,
      "pct_state": 79,
      "pct_national": 81,
      "links": {
        "self": "https://glasscript.com/api/v1/physicians/123456"
      }
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "source": "CMS Open Payments",
    "program_years": "2019-2025",
    "detail_years": "2023-2025",
    "as_of": "June 30, 2026",
    "version": "2026a",
    "note": "Payments are legal and often routine; figures are as reported to CMS.",
    "field_notes": {
      "total_all": "general + research payments combined (used for ranking)",
      "total_latest": "general payments only, latest program year"
    }
  }
}

Endpoints

Endpoint	Key	Returns
`GET /api/v1/meta`	none	Data version, publication date, and entity counts
`GET /api/v1/physicians/search`	required	Matching clinicians with totals and percentiles. Params: `q`, `state`, `limit`
`GET /api/v1/physicians/{id}`	required	One clinician's full document: trends, natures, companies, products, benchmarks
`GET /api/v1/drugs/search`	required	Matching drugs and devices with associated-payment totals. Param: `q`
`GET /api/v1/drugs/{slug}`	required	One drug or device with maker, specialty, and top-recipient context
`GET /api/v1/companies/{slug}`	required	One company with yearly totals, products, and specialty mix

Tiers

Tier	Daily requests	Best for
Free	1,000 per day	Journalists and academics. Request a key by email; tell us what you're working on.
Pro	25,000 per day	Production products: care navigation, telehealth, directories.
Partner	Custom	Higher volumes, bulk data, or custom fields.

Commercial tiers are in pilot. Email hello@glasscript.com for a key.

Ground rules

Daily limits reset at 00:00 UTC. Responses include X-RateLimit-Limit and X-RateLimit-Remaining headers.
Attribute displayed figures to CMS Open Payments via GlassScript, and keep the "as reported to CMS" framing.
Product-level figures are payments associated with a product, as reported by companies. Describing them as payments "for" a product or "to promote" it overstates what CMS collects.
Use of the API is subject to our terms.

What this means, and what it doesn't

These payments are legal and common. Drug and device makers routinely pay for meals at educational events, consulting, speaking, travel, and research. Companies are required by federal law to report them; that's why this data exists.
A payment is not evidence of wrongdoing. Most clinicians who accept industry payments provide excellent care. Research payments in particular often reflect participation in clinical trials.
Context beats raw numbers. A few hundred dollars in sandwiches over several years is typical. What's worth understanding is scale, source, and purpose, which is what this page shows.
The data comes from companies, not doctors. Figures are "as reported to CMS" by the paying companies. Clinicians can dispute records through CMS's official process.

Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.