Current or prospective ownership or investment interest

Nature of paymentGeneral Payments

Current or prospective ownership or investment interest is one of the nature-of-payment categories CMS uses to classify each General Payment record. The figures below are the dataset totals for this category across all program years currently loaded; they reflect General Payments only and are never combined with the separate Research or Ownership datasets.

Dataset totals — Current or prospective ownership or investment interest

$308,777,100.70

Category: General Payments
Program years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Records: 3,972
Providers: 959

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How this figure is calculated

The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
Totals sum General Payments records published with this CMS nature-of-payment value, across the loaded program years.
Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

Coverage: program years 2018–2024, General Payments only. Per-provider record listings for a nature appear on each provider page; this hub shows dataset-level totals.

Program years

PY2018 $2,269,563,457.16
PY2019 $2,433,399,762.53
PY2020 $1,687,222,531.65
PY2021 $2,283,218,269.44
PY2022 $2,729,211,156.11
PY2023 $2,516,263,761.61
PY2024 $2,647,900,618.22

Other natures of payment

Royalty or License $3,854,604,721.14
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $3,708,128,562.16
Consulting Fee $3,279,660,263.33
Food and Beverage $1,971,766,932.56
Acquisitions $1,163,259,583.85
Travel and Lodging $1,061,254,707.75
Education $388,676,681.76
Honoraria $333,484,448.93
Grant $173,185,803.10
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program $113,229,047.66
Gift $60,348,922.92
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $57,293,502.07
Debt forgiveness $30,373,802.81
Long term medical supply or device loan $28,978,737.68
Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program $24,541,580.20
Charitable Contribution $5,367,251.17
Entertainment $3,847,906.93