Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $11.42B in payments to 177,638 California physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map
Analysis by Matthew Hanauer, PhD, Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.
Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.
Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.
physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.
reported across 8,290,662 individual payments.
California ranks 1st of 51 for total reported payments, with $11.42B across 8,290,662 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 14.6% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $64,312 per recipient across 177,638 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 55% above the $41,481 national average (3rd of 51 per physician). The largest payer was ICU Medical Inc at $1.53B. The highest-paid specialty was Internal Medicine. The largest individual recipient, Binder William, received $143M across 55 payments.
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Source: CMS Open Payments. Being listed does not imply wrongdoing; many payments cover routine expenses. Physicians can share names, so confirm the city and specialty.
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