CMS Open Payments
CMS Open Payments is the U.S. federal transparency program (run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) that publishes payments and transfers of value made by drug and medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations to physicians, non-physician practitioners, and teaching hospitals. The public data site at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov exposes a free, open, no-authentication REST API (a DKAN-style data catalog under /api/1) that lets developers query general payments, research payments, and ownership and investment records by program year. The API offers a structured datastore query interface (filter, select, sort, paginate), a SQL query endpoint, CSV and JSON downloads, and a metastore catalog for dataset discovery and metadata. Reads are completely free and require no API key. Program Year 2025 alone contains roughly 17 million published records totaling about 14.67 billion dollars in payments.
CMS Open Payments publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Datastore Query API, Datastore SQL API, Download API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Government Data, Healthcare, Open Data, Transparency, and Payments.
CMS Open Payments’ developer surface includes authentication, documentation, signup flow, and 6 more developer resources.
Kin Score
APIs 5
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
CMS Open Payments Datastore Query API
Structured query over a dataset distribution.
CMS Open Payments Datastore SQL API
SQL query over a datastore resource.
CMS Open Payments Download API
Bulk CSV or JSON download of query results.
CMS Open Payments Metastore API
DCAT-US dataset catalog and metadata.
CMS Open Payments Search API
Full-text and faceted dataset discovery.
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
CMS Open Payments API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Open Payments Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Open Payments Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API