Open Payments · District of Columbia

What drug & device companies paid District of Columbia doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $332M in payments to 9,984 District of Columbia physicians and teaching hospitals. Explore totals by congressional district and county, company, and recipient. ‹ Back to the national map

Analysis by , Chief Technology Officer at Civly · built from the complete CMS Open Payments release, program years 2018–2024.

$332M
reported 2018–2024
9,984
physicians paid
$33,230
avg / physician
1,485
companies paying
$4M
biggest recipient

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.

Who pays District of Columbia doctors, and who gets paid

Reported payments for 2018–2024 from CMS Open Payments. A reported payment alone does not indicate wrongdoing.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
PFIZER INC.$25M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$19M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$17M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$14M
ABBVIE INC.$12M
Gilead Sciences, Inc.$11M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$10M
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$9M
GlaxoSmithKline, LLC.$7M
Abbott Laboratories$7M

Biggest recipients

District of Columbia physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Silverberg Jonathan$4M
Thackray Helen$4M
Bahroo Laxman$2M
Zheng Pan$2M
Yu Warren$2M
Goodman Jesse$2M
Burnette Autumn$2M
Shin Robert$2M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Neurology$12M
Internal Medicine$9M
Dermatology$7M
Hematology & Oncology$7M
Pediatrics$4M
Pulmonary Disease$4M
Cardiovascular Disease$4M
Infectious Disease$4M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

9,984

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$332M

reported across 267,047 individual payments.

How District of Columbia compares nationally

District of Columbia ranks 35th of 51 for total reported payments, with $332M across 267,047 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 0.42% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $33,230 per recipient across 9,984 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 20% below the $41,481 national average (22nd of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $25M. The highest-paid specialty was Neurology. The largest individual recipient, Silverberg Jonathan, received $4M across 2,522 payments.

#35
of 51 — total payments
#22
of 51 — per physician
0.42%
of all U.S. payments

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