# CMS Open Payments Pro — Sunshine Act + NPI API (`nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro`) Actor

Sunshine Act pharma-to-physician payments enriched with NPI Registry specialty + practice address. Per (physician × manufacturer) intensity signal. Consulting / speaking / meal / travel / research filters. Compliance, plaintiff law, payer audit, medical journalism.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGenData](https://apify.com/nexgendata) (community)
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## Pricing

from $50.00 / 1,000 physician payments

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
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- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## CMS Open Payments Pro

CMS Open Payments enriched with NPI detail — Sunshine Act physician payment records.

> Public regulatory/health data — not medical advice.

### 📊 What you get

Clean JSON, one record per record (full output has 47 fields):

- `physician_npi` — Physician npi
- `physician_first_name` — Physician first name
- `physician_last_name` — Physician last name
- `physician_middle_name` — Physician middle name
- `physician_suffix` — Physician suffix
- `physician_op_specialty` — Physician op specialty
- `physician_primary_type` — Physician primary type
- `physician_license_state` — Physician license state
- `physician_op_city` — Physician op city
- `physician_op_state` — Physician op state

**Pricing:** $0.150 per record (Pay-Per-Event) — about **7 records per $1**.

### 🤖 Use with AI agents

Point Claude, the OpenAI Agents SDK, an n8n flow or any MCP-aware client at it and pull official records on demand.

**Agentic payments (x402):** Supports agentic payment via x402 — agents can call this actor with USDC, no API key required.

### 🔗 Related regulatory actors

**CMS quality & provider records — every CMS compare dataset:**

[Hospital](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-hospital-compare) · [Nursing Home](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-nursing-home-compare) · [Home Health](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-home-health-agencies) · [Hospice](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-hospice-compare) · [Dialysis](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-dialysis-facility-compare) · [Open Payments](https://apify.com/nexgendata/cms-open-payments-scraper) · [Medicare Providers](https://apify.com/nexgendata/medicare-provider-intelligence)

**FDA records:** [OpenFDA Drug](https://apify.com/nexgendata/openfda-drug-search) · [Drug Approvals](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-drug-approvals) · [Drug Shortages](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-drug-shortages-monitor) · [Purple Book](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-purple-book-biologics-biosimilars) · [Warning Letters/483](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-warning-letters-483-inspections) · [Pharma Pipeline](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-pharma-catalyst-pipeline) · [Adverse Events](https://apify.com/nexgendata/fda-adverse-events-faers-maude) · [Medical Devices](https://apify.com/nexgendata/medical-device-fda-intelligence)

**Agent front door — Healthcare & FDA MCP:** [Healthcare & FDA MCP](https://apify.com/nexgendata/healthcare-fda-intelligence-mcp)

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*Public official records and enforcement data, assembled for research and monitoring.*

# Actor input Schema

## `physician_name` (type: `string`):

Full name (first + last) or just last name. Used to filter CMS Open Payments records AND to seed the NPI Registry join when no NPI is supplied. Examples: 'John Smith', 'Sanjay Gupta', 'Mehmet Oz'.

## `npi` (type: `string`):

10-digit National Provider Identifier. Most precise filter — every payment to that physician in the date window, with NPI Registry primary specialty + practice address joined on the row.

## `manufacturer_name` (type: `string`):

Substring match on the paying manufacturer or GPO. Combine with physician\_name/npi to scope to a specific brand relationship. Examples: 'Pfizer', 'Medtronic', 'Novo Nordisk', 'Genentech'.

## `payment_category` (type: `string`):

Buyer-friendly category mapped to CMS 'nature\_of\_payment'. 'consulting' = consulting fees; 'speaking' = speaker bureau / honoraria / faculty; 'meal' = food and beverage; 'travel' = travel and lodging; 'research' = research payments (clinical trial / preclinical); 'any' = no filter and includes research alongside general payments.

## `date_from` (type: `string`):

Start of the payment-date window, ISO format YYYY-MM-DD. CMS publishes payment dates per program year; the actor sweeps every per-year dataset touched by \[date\_from, date\_to]. Default: one year ago.

## `date_to` (type: `string`):

End of the payment-date window, ISO format YYYY-MM-DD. Default: today. Note: CMS Open Payments publishes annually in June; the most recent full program year is typically ~18 months behind real time.

## `max_records` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of joined payment records to return across all years in the window (1-5000). Each record is one CMS Open Payments line item enriched with NPI Registry specialty + practice address. Set to 5000 for a full physician compensation profile across multiple years.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "payment_category": "any",
  "max_records": 100
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "physician_name": "",
    "npi": "",
    "manufacturer_name": "",
    "payment_category": "any",
    "date_from": "",
    "date_to": "",
    "max_records": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "physician_name": "",
    "npi": "",
    "manufacturer_name": "",
    "payment_category": "any",
    "date_from": "",
    "date_to": "",
    "max_records": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "physician_name": "",
  "npi": "",
  "manufacturer_name": "",
  "payment_category": "any",
  "date_from": "",
  "date_to": "",
  "max_records": 100
}' |
apify call nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=nexgendata/cms-open-payments-physician-intelligence-pro",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/g3ROf3lQhgQnOasBJ/builds/1Cd7HqJ2527LLwwIL/openapi.json