# CMS Open Payments (Sunshine Act)

`drug_silver.fact_drug_payment_to_prescriber` · Drugs and formularies · status live · 56,372,438 rows

CMS Open Payments General Payment transfers from drug and device manufacturers/GPOs to covered recipients, filtered here to drug/biological payment slots and joined by NPI/NDC for conflict-of-interest and integrity analysis.

**Grain.** One row per exploded General Payment drug/biological slot at (program_year, payment_id, npi, ndc11/drug name) grain; pure device/no-drug rows are intentionally out of this drug fact.

| column | type | meaning |
|---|---|---|
| npi | string |  |
| ndc11 | string |  |
| payment_date | date |  |
| payment_id | string |  |
| program_year | int |  |
| manufacturer_party_id | string |  |
| manufacturer_name | string |  |
| payment_amount_usd | double |  |
| payment_nature | string |  |
| drug_or_biological_name | string |  |
| recipient_state | string |  |
| form_of_payment | string |  |
| observed_period | date |  |
| asserted_at | date |  |
| effective_period_start | date |  |
| effective_period_end | date |  |
| cms_vintage_sequence | int |  |
| parse_revision | int |  |
| parser_artifact_hash | string |  |
| source_url | string |  |
| sha256_content_hash | string |  |
| source_id | string |  |
| is_current | boolean |  |
| bronze_object_key | string |  |
| s3_version_id | string |  |
| vintage_tag | string |  |
| drug_source_version_id | string |  |

Tools that read it: excluded_prescriber_payment_screen

Query it: `query_substrate` with `SELECT ... FROM drug_silver.fact_drug_payment_to_prescriber WHERE ... LIMIT 100`; read `describe_data_source("drug_silver.fact_drug_payment_to_prescriber")` first.