Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $8.00B in payments to 142,768 Texas 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 8,382,822 individual payments.
Texas ranks 2nd of 51 for total reported payments, with $8.00B across 8,382,822 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 10.2% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $56,014 per recipient across 142,768 physicians and teaching hospitals, about 35% above the $41,481 national average (4th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was PFIZER INC. at $594M. The highest-paid specialty was Orthopaedic Surgery. The largest individual recipient, Burkhart Stephen, received $211M across 155 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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