Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $1.59B in payments to 33,808 Washington 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 895,813 individual payments.
Washington ranks 14th of 51 for total reported payments, with $1.59B across 895,813 payments from 2018 to 2024. That is 2.0% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Payments averaged $46,966 per recipient across 33,808 physicians and teaching hospitals, close to the $41,481 national average (11th of 51 per physician). The largest payer was Hill-Rom, Inc at $111M. The highest-paid specialty was Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology. The largest individual recipient, Bardy Gust, received $140M across 33 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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