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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Am Econ J Econ Policy. 2022 May;14(2):1–33. doi: 10.1257/pol.20200044

Table 1:

Summary Statistics for Different Types of Pharmaceutical Payments

Assigned Category Total Number of Payments Mean Payment Size Median Payment Size Payment Total Amount (USD)
Payment Type (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
Consulting Fee Compensation 2, 247 2, 370 2, 000 5, 325, 818
Compensation for services Compensation 27, 426 2, 275 2, 400 62, 397, 361
Travel and Lodging Travel 18,076 260 112 4, 695, 838
Education Food 30, 208 36 9 1, 095, 886
Food and Beverage Food 1, 759, 889 17 13 29, 295, 620

Notes: Payments for NOAC drugs to sampled physicians, 2014–2016. Rows are shown in descending order of mean payment size. The “Payment Type” column lists the payment category as reported in the Open Payments Database. The “Assigned Category” describes our groupings of these types into three categories based on payment size. We label these categories based on the most common payment type: Compensation, Travel, and Food.