CMS Research Payments

Background

Pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers must submit disclose payments to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services annually.

This Quarto dashboard analyzes research payments made to practitioners and institutions in 2023. It is intended for health professionals, journalists, and curious members of the public to see which disciplines receive high research activity, and who are key funding recipients.

Preview

Data

The following datasets are leveraged:

• CMS Open Payments for research in 2023
• rnaturalearth United States polygons

Tools

R Version

This webpage was built with R 4.3.1 and R Studio 2024.12.0.467.

Packages

Data import and wrangling:

• data.table
• dplyr
• janitor
• tidyr
• forcats

String manipulation:

• stringr
• glue
• tidytext

Visualization and tables:

• ggplot2
• ggwordcloud
• scales
• rnaturalearth
• leaflet
• DT