AstraZeneca: 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
- $3B
- Providers paid
- 323,649
- Transactions
- 3,513,324
- Average per transaction
- $854
The average per transaction — $854 — 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 | $465,119,259 | 15.5% |
| Massachusetts | $297,587,807 | 9.9% |
| New York | $288,470,886 | 9.6% |
| California | $255,171,109 | 8.5% |
| Florida | $210,065,641 | 7.0% |
| Missouri | $88,276,570 | 2.9% |
| Minnesota | $85,598,904 | 2.9% |
| Pennsylvania | $83,077,052 | 2.8% |
| Ohio | $82,637,475 | 2.8% |
| North Carolina | $79,736,303 | 2.7% |
| Illinois | $78,388,399 | 2.6% |
| Tennessee | $74,746,789 | 2.5% |
| Michigan | $71,485,803 | 2.4% |
| Virginia | $68,784,334 | 2.3% |
| Maryland | $61,631,794 | 2.1% |
| Arizona | $60,440,735 | 2.0% |
| Washington | $57,439,914 | 1.9% |
| Colorado | $52,891,012 | 1.8% |
| Georgia | $47,056,644 | 1.6% |
| South Carolina | $46,066,933 | 1.5% |
| Kentucky | $35,210,004 | 1.2% |
| Louisiana | $32,364,852 | 1.1% |
| Oregon | $30,934,576 | 1.0% |
| New Jersey | $29,244,354 | 1.0% |
| Alabama | $29,010,629 | 1.0% |
| Indiana | $27,382,108 | 0.9% |
| Oklahoma | $25,267,692 | 0.8% |
| Connecticut | $24,086,670 | 0.8% |
| Kansas | $23,294,090 | 0.8% |
| Utah | $21,944,787 | 0.7% |
| Arkansas | $20,030,625 | 0.7% |
| Wisconsin | $18,760,222 | 0.6% |
| District of Columbia | $17,060,151 | 0.6% |
| Nebraska | $13,134,927 | 0.4% |
| Nevada | $12,854,374 | 0.4% |
| Iowa | $11,585,017 | 0.4% |
| Idaho | $11,254,530 | 0.4% |
| Rhode Island | $10,823,147 | 0.4% |
| New Mexico | $9,557,176 | 0.3% |
| West Virginia | $7,708,783 | 0.3% |
| Mississippi | $7,637,764 | 0.3% |
| Vermont | $5,354,228 | 0.2% |
| Puerto Rico | $4,618,129 | 0.2% |
| Montana | $4,526,660 | 0.2% |
| South Dakota | $2,936,046 | 0.1% |
| North Dakota | $2,318,519 | 0.1% |
| Hawaii | $2,144,195 | 0.1% |
| New Hampshire | $1,638,786 | 0.1% |
| Delaware | $1,525,391 | 0.1% |
| Maine | $1,268,569 | 0.0% |
| Alaska | $665,038 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | $91,063 | 0.0% |
| GU | $37,030 | 0.0% |
| AE | $10,326 | 0.0% |
| AP | $1,415 | 0.0% |
| ZZ | $1,262 | 0.0% |
| XX | $953 | 0.0% |
| AA | $553 | 0.0% |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | $521 | 0.0% |
| AS | $28 | 0.0% |