Amgen: payments to doctors
Reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act for Open Payments program years 2019–2025. Figures group every CMS reporting entity belonging to this corporate parent.
- Total reported
- $2.5B
- Providers paid
- 295,016
- Transactions
- 3,094,362
- Average per transaction
- $796
The average per transaction — $796 — is the number worth reading. A large total spread across hundreds of thousands of transactions is a company buying a great many modest meals at educational presentations. A large total across few transactions means consulting, speaking or royalty arrangements with a small number of physicians. The totals alone do not distinguish them.
Where the money went
| State | Total reported | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Texas | $312,307,190 | 12.7% |
| Florida | $306,931,019 | 12.5% |
| California | $282,281,482 | 11.5% |
| Maryland | $236,259,760 | 9.6% |
| New York | $157,478,701 | 6.4% |
| Massachusetts | $101,302,195 | 4.1% |
| North Carolina | $99,319,743 | 4.0% |
| Pennsylvania | $97,638,793 | 4.0% |
| Illinois | $87,976,133 | 3.6% |
| Ohio | $75,115,360 | 3.0% |
| Arizona | $59,517,101 | 2.4% |
| Michigan | $48,104,899 | 2.0% |
| Georgia | $46,484,742 | 1.9% |
| Washington | $45,772,344 | 1.9% |
| Alabama | $44,211,959 | 1.8% |
| Missouri | $41,826,222 | 1.7% |
| Wisconsin | $38,447,472 | 1.6% |
| Tennessee | $37,367,542 | 1.5% |
| Minnesota | $30,146,791 | 1.2% |
| Colorado | $29,028,538 | 1.2% |
| Virginia | $24,952,689 | 1.0% |
| New Jersey | $22,105,618 | 0.9% |
| South Carolina | $22,046,407 | 0.9% |
| Indiana | $21,219,770 | 0.9% |
| Connecticut | $18,719,511 | 0.8% |
| Louisiana | $16,037,655 | 0.7% |
| Utah | $15,429,382 | 0.6% |
| Nevada | $14,411,916 | 0.6% |
| Oregon | $13,964,005 | 0.6% |
| Kentucky | $12,982,514 | 0.5% |
| Oklahoma | $12,222,417 | 0.5% |
| West Virginia | $11,014,686 | 0.4% |
| Mississippi | $8,044,717 | 0.3% |
| Iowa | $7,860,215 | 0.3% |
| Kansas | $6,818,923 | 0.3% |
| South Dakota | $6,684,914 | 0.3% |
| District of Columbia | $6,136,709 | 0.2% |
| Puerto Rico | $5,204,649 | 0.2% |
| Nebraska | $4,986,632 | 0.2% |
| Arkansas | $4,889,899 | 0.2% |
| Alaska | $4,449,118 | 0.2% |
| Rhode Island | $3,796,835 | 0.2% |
| Idaho | $3,704,290 | 0.2% |
| New Mexico | $3,496,562 | 0.1% |
| Hawaii | $3,371,412 | 0.1% |
| Maine | $2,502,616 | 0.1% |
| North Dakota | $2,300,624 | 0.1% |
| New Hampshire | $2,233,984 | 0.1% |
| Montana | $1,733,678 | 0.1% |
| Delaware | $1,677,858 | 0.1% |
| Vermont | $446,813 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | $395,645 | 0.0% |
| AP | $10,864 | 0.0% |
| GU | $2,426 | 0.0% |
| AE | $1,352 | 0.0% |
| ZZ | $1,156 | 0.0% |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | $879 | 0.0% |
| XX | $122 | 0.0% |
| AA | $27 | 0.0% |