Open Payments · Washington

What drug & device companies paid Washington doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $1.59B in payments to 33,808 Washington physicians and teaching hospitals — broken down below by congressional district and county, plus who paid and who got paid. ‹ Back to the national map

$1.59B
reported 2018–2024
33,808
physicians paid
$46,966
avg / physician
1,940
companies paying
$140M
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 Washington doctors, and who gets paid

2018–2024 reported payments, from Civly's loaded copy of CMS Open Payments. A payment is a disclosure, not an accusation.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
Hill-Rom, Inc$111M
PFIZER INC.$91M
Eli Lilly and Company$77M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$64M
Celgene Corporation$62M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$53M
Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation$48M
Genentech, Inc.$41M
Janssen Research & Development…$35M
E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$34M

Biggest recipients

Washington physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Bardy Gust$140M
Pesando John$13M
Barrett William$9M
West John$7M
Pritchett James$7M
Lendvay Thomas$6M
Tohmeh Antoine$4M
Raabe Rodney$4M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Clinical Cardiac Electrophysio…$136M
Orthopaedic Surgery$48M
Hematology & Oncology$22M
Internal Medicine$14M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spi…$10M
Neurology$10M
Rheumatology$9M
General Practice$7M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

33,808

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$1.59B

reported across 895,813 individual payments.

How Washington compares nationally

Washington sits mid-pack nationally, ranking 14th of 51 for total reported payments — $1.59B across 895,813 individual payments from 2018 to 2024, 2.0% of the $78.26B reported nationwide. Spread across the 33,808 Washington physicians and teaching hospitals that took at least one payment, that's $46,966 per recipient — close to the $41,481 national average (11th of 51 per physician). Within the state, the biggest single payer was Hill-Rom, Inc at $111M; Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology took in more than any other specialty; the state's largest individual recipient, Bardy Gust, was paid $140M across 33 payments.

#14
of 51 — total payments
#11
of 51 — per physician
2.0%
of all U.S. payments

Compare with nearby states

Every state gets the same breakdown — payments mapped by district and county, top payers and specialties, and a doctor lookup. Or start from the national map.