Payment benchmarks

Is $X typical?

Every doctor's profile shows one percentile sentence. This is the full distribution behind it: what recipients actually received in 2025, across every specialty and state, from a quarter of recipients up to the top 1%.

1,009,757all recipients, every specialty with a general payment in 2025
$2,852average for the year

All specialties, nationwide

General payments only, latest program year (2025), as reported to CMS. Values below the 25th percentile are not shown as a bar (too close to zero to read), but are included in the count above.

25th percentile $50.69
Median (50th) $169
75th percentile $603
90th percentile $1,890
95th percentile $4,066
99th percentile $45K
PercentileAmount
25th percentile$50.69
Median (50th)$168.57
75th percentile$602.57
90th percentile$1,889.98
95th percentile$4,065.90
99th percentile$45,329.34

Is your amount typical?

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By specialty

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By state

All specialties combined, one state at a time.

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