Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $522M in payments to 29,320 Kentucky 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 1,684,141 individual payments.
Kentucky ranks 31st of 51 for total reported payments, with $522M across 1,684,141 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 0.67% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $17,807 per recipient across 29,320 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 57% below the $41,481 national average (40th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $47M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Scheker Luis, received $15M across 46 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.