Education
Nature of paymentGeneral Payments
Education 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 — Education
$388,676,681.76
- Category: General Payments
- Program years: 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
- Records: 1,165,765
- Providers: 369,195
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
Other natures of payment
- Royalty or License
- Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program
- Consulting Fee
- Food and Beverage
- Acquisitions
- Travel and Lodging
- Honoraria
- Current or prospective ownership or investment interest
- Grant
- Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a medical education program
- Gift
- Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program
- Debt forgiveness
- Long term medical supply or device loan
- Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for an accredited or certified continuing education program
- Charitable Contribution
- Entertainment