Cook Medical LLC: 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
- $4.8M
- Providers paid
- 15,735
- Transactions
- 69,608
- Average per transaction
- $69
The average per transaction — $69 — 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 |
|---|---|---|
| California | $676,274 | 14.1% |
| Florida | $455,914 | 9.5% |
| New York | $420,190 | 8.7% |
| Texas | $384,304 | 8.0% |
| Illinois | $270,283 | 5.6% |
| Pennsylvania | $217,809 | 4.5% |
| Ohio | $186,726 | 3.9% |
| North Carolina | $136,869 | 2.8% |
| Missouri | $134,793 | 2.8% |
| New Jersey | $130,330 | 2.7% |
| South Carolina | $128,744 | 2.7% |
| Massachusetts | $112,167 | 2.3% |
| Michigan | $108,114 | 2.2% |
| Georgia | $107,901 | 2.2% |
| Indiana | $101,503 | 2.1% |
| Virginia | $91,172 | 1.9% |
| Arizona | $90,828 | 1.9% |
| Kansas | $85,317 | 1.8% |
| Connecticut | $82,701 | 1.7% |
| Wisconsin | $79,675 | 1.7% |
| Maryland | $68,854 | 1.4% |
| Louisiana | $66,363 | 1.4% |
| Washington | $63,700 | 1.3% |
| Minnesota | $55,452 | 1.2% |
| District of Columbia | $46,388 | 1.0% |
| Tennessee | $45,987 | 1.0% |
| Oregon | $42,082 | 0.9% |
| Colorado | $40,627 | 0.8% |
| Kentucky | $40,090 | 0.8% |
| Alabama | $37,906 | 0.8% |
| Utah | $36,229 | 0.8% |
| Oklahoma | $35,538 | 0.7% |
| Nevada | $28,076 | 0.6% |
| New Mexico | $26,622 | 0.6% |
| New Hampshire | $21,471 | 0.4% |
| Mississippi | $19,582 | 0.4% |
| Arkansas | $17,734 | 0.4% |
| West Virginia | $15,087 | 0.3% |
| Maine | $13,421 | 0.3% |
| Nebraska | $11,971 | 0.2% |
| Rhode Island | $11,403 | 0.2% |
| Delaware | $10,067 | 0.2% |
| Hawaii | $8,946 | 0.2% |
| Iowa | $8,433 | 0.2% |
| South Dakota | $6,382 | 0.1% |
| Wyoming | $5,973 | 0.1% |
| Idaho | $5,894 | 0.1% |
| Puerto Rico | $4,673 | 0.1% |
| Montana | $4,394 | 0.1% |
| North Dakota | $2,074 | 0.0% |
| Alaska | $1,822 | 0.0% |
| AE | $182 | 0.0% |
| GU | $59 | 0.0% |
| AP | $18 | 0.0% |