Baxter Healthcare: 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
- $28.7M
- Providers paid
- 49,058
- Transactions
- 111,005
- Average per transaction
- $258
The average per transaction — $258 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | $3,056,742 | 10.7% |
| Florida | $2,916,131 | 10.2% |
| California | $2,668,031 | 9.3% |
| Texas | $2,227,500 | 7.8% |
| Colorado | $1,776,176 | 6.2% |
| Pennsylvania | $1,505,888 | 5.3% |
| Illinois | $1,461,550 | 5.1% |
| Ohio | $1,408,352 | 4.9% |
| New York | $1,287,951 | 4.5% |
| Maryland | $1,010,713 | 3.5% |
| Missouri | $949,572 | 3.3% |
| Massachusetts | $790,917 | 2.8% |
| Tennessee | $661,545 | 2.3% |
| Arizona | $614,214 | 2.1% |
| Mississippi | $568,664 | 2.0% |
| Georgia | $499,512 | 1.7% |
| Connecticut | $499,195 | 1.7% |
| New Jersey | $448,652 | 1.6% |
| Minnesota | $388,161 | 1.4% |
| Arkansas | $387,056 | 1.3% |
| Michigan | $375,076 | 1.3% |
| Alabama | $334,659 | 1.2% |
| Utah | $319,914 | 1.1% |
| Kentucky | $279,317 | 1.0% |
| Indiana | $277,462 | 1.0% |
| Oregon | $238,848 | 0.8% |
| Virginia | $227,483 | 0.8% |
| South Carolina | $201,067 | 0.7% |
| Wisconsin | $174,167 | 0.6% |
| Louisiana | $160,609 | 0.6% |
| Nevada | $125,667 | 0.4% |
| Vermont | $122,029 | 0.4% |
| Iowa | $102,903 | 0.4% |
| Washington | $89,114 | 0.3% |
| Oklahoma | $65,871 | 0.2% |
| Kansas | $63,039 | 0.2% |
| Rhode Island | $54,349 | 0.2% |
| North Dakota | $50,664 | 0.2% |
| New Mexico | $50,114 | 0.2% |
| District of Columbia | $49,169 | 0.2% |
| Nebraska | $36,206 | 0.1% |
| Delaware | $26,210 | 0.1% |
| West Virginia | $23,363 | 0.1% |
| Idaho | $20,756 | 0.1% |
| New Hampshire | $20,082 | 0.1% |
| Hawaii | $11,810 | 0.0% |
| Montana | $11,381 | 0.0% |
| Puerto Rico | $9,945 | 0.0% |
| Maine | $8,180 | 0.0% |
| South Dakota | $7,180 | 0.0% |
| Alaska | $3,747 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | $1,961 | 0.0% |
| AE | $347 | 0.0% |
| AP | $282 | 0.0% |
| GU | $18 | 0.0% |