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 The Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Directory Pilot is Now Live!
CMS, in partnership with the state of Oklahoma, began work last year on a first-of-its-kind Qualified Health Plan (QHP) Directory Pilot. The goal of the pilot is to develop a single, automated, statewide directory for providers and facilities that participate in QHPs (including Stand-Along Dental Plans) in Oklahoma that will be accessible through a QHP Directory Pilot Portal (“the portal”). The portal will improve data accuracy, lessen burden on providers and payers, lower administrative costs, support interoperable data exchange, and ultimately improve patient and provider experiences. CMS intends that this pilot serve as a learning opportunity to inform future development of a National Directory of Healthcare.
CMS is excited to announce that the portal is officially open as of June 30, 2025! Providers, organizational administrators, and their assigned delegates in Oklahoma now have the opportunity to log in here and review their prepopulated provider and facility-level data for accuracy and completeness. On average providers were able to verify and update their information in 8 minutes! For more information, including helpful resources such as a Frequently Asked Questions and Fact Sheet about the pilot, please visit our website. You may subscribe to receive email updates about the pilot here. For questions, please contact QHPDirectorypilot@cms.hhs.gov.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published Open Payments Program Year 2024 data, along with newly submitted and updated payment records for Program Years 2018 – 2023. The data is accessible on the Open Payments Search Tool.
Open Payments is a national disclosure program that promotes transparency and accountability by making information about the financial relationships between certain pharmaceutical and medical device manufacturers and distributors and certain health care providers available to the public.
Through Open Payments, the American public has much more insight into payments and other transfers of value their healthcare providers receive from pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Drug and medical device companies are held accountable by law to report certain financial relationships for the purpose of the Open Payments program. Health care providers have a voluntary role in Open Payments and may review, affirm, or if necessary, dispute data that has been reported about them.
For Program Year 2024, CMS published $13.18 billion in payments and ownership and investment interests reported by applicable manufacturers and distributors to physicians, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses and teaching hospitals. This amount is comprised of 16.16 million records attributable to 651,977 physicians, 338,340 non-physician practitioners (NPPs), and 1,288 teaching hospitals.
Payments are reported in three payment categories: general payments, research payments, and ownership or investment interests. Payments in the three major reporting categories for Program Year 2024 are:
- $3.33 billion in general payments (i.e., non-research related)
- $8.52 billion in research payments
- $1.34 billion of ownership or investment interests held by physicians or their immediate family members in the reporting entities.
The active program years data includes a total of 88.25 million records amounting to $76.99 billion published through the Open Payments program.
The Open Payments data will be refreshed in 2026 to reflect any updates made to the data between now and December 31, 2025. To explore the data visit the Open Payments Search Tool.
Covered Recipient Post Publication Review and Dispute Availability
Covered recipients have until December 31, 2025, to review and affirm, or, if necessary, dispute, records attributed to them that were submitted in Calendar Year 2025. Action taken on the data between now and December 31, 2025, will be reflected in the annual data refresh or in a later publication. To participate in review and dispute activities, covered recipients must be registered in the Open Payments system. For more information about registration and the review and dispute process, visit the Open Payments Covered Recipients page.
Archived Data Reminder
Data publication occurs for five years from the first publication of the program year data. After a program year reaches its fifth full year of data publication, it is closed and archived. Program Years 2013 – 2017 are archived and are not displayed on the Search Tool. More information about the archiving process and the archived data is available on the Open Payments Archived Datasets page.
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