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💊 OpenPayments Scraper

🚀 Collect pharmaceutical payment data from CMS OpenPayments in minutes. Search by provider, company, or payment type. Export payment amounts, dates, drug/device names, and payer info. No coding, no CMS account required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 25+ fields per payment · 🔍 Multi-filter search · 💰 Payment amounts · 🚫 No auth required

The OpenPayments Scraper collects pharmaceutical and medical device payment data from CMS's Open Payments database, returning 25+ fields per record: physician name, payment amount, payer company, payment type (general, research, ownership), drug/device name, payment date, and teaching hospital info. Filter by provider, company, country, and search type.

CMS Open Payments tracks billions in industry payments to physicians and hospitals. This Actor exports structured payment data for compliance, research, and transparency workflows.

📋 What the OpenPayments Scraper does

Multi-filter payment search:

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste any OpenPayments search URL.
• 🔍 Search type. Individual providers or companies.
• 👨‍⚕️ Provider search. Find payments to specific physicians.
• 🏢 Company search. Find payments from specific pharmaceutical/device companies.
• 🌍 Country filter. Filter by provider country.

Each payment record includes physician name, NPI, payment amount, payer company, payment type, drug/device name, nature of payment, payment date, and teaching hospital info.

💡 Why it matters: searching the CMS OpenPayments database manually means clicking through paginated results. This Actor exports structured payment data at scale for compliance audits, conflict-of-interest research, or pharmaceutical spending analysis.

🎬 Full Demo

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⚙️ Input

Example: payments to a specific physician.

{
"searchType":"individual",
"startUrl":"https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/search/physicians/by-name-and-location?physician_first_name=John&physician_last_name=Smith",
"maxItems":50
}

📊 Output

🧾 Schema

📦 Sample records

✨ Why choose this Actor

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the OpenPayments Scraper page.
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste a search URL or configure filters.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

💼 Business use cases

🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🔌 Automating OpenPayments Scraper

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

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• GitHub - Trigger from commits
• Google Drive - Export to Sheets

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🆘 Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper, propose a custom data project, or report an issue.

⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by CMS or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available Sunshine Act data is collected.