Open Payments · Kentucky

What drug & device companies paid Kentucky doctors

Between 2018 and 2024, companies reported $522M in payments to 29,320 Kentucky physicians and teaching hospitals — broken down below by congressional district and county, plus who paid and who got paid. ‹ Back to the national map

$522M
reported 2018–2024
29,320
physicians paid
$17,807
avg / physician
1,772
companies paying
$15M
biggest recipient

Shaded by total reported payments. Hover an area for detail; click to drill in. ZIP→area mapping covers ~98% of payments (PO-box/unique ZIPs excluded). Source: CMS Open Payments, loaded by Civly.

Who pays Kentucky doctors, and who gets paid

2018–2024 reported payments, from Civly's loaded copy of CMS Open Payments. A payment is a disclosure, not an accusation.

Top payers

Drug & device companies, 2018–2024
PFIZER INC.$47M
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP$21M
Eli Lilly and Company$21M
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corpo…$17M
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC$16M
ModernaTX, Inc.$15M
Amgen Inc.$15M
Stryker Corporation$15M
Aptis Medical, LLC$15M
ABBVIE INC.$13M

Biggest recipients

Kentucky physicians by total received, 2018–2024
Scheker Luis$15M
Malkani Arthur$9M
Kircik Leon$6M
Kirn David$4M
Karpecki Paul$4M
Gum Jeffery$3M
Strenge Brandon$3M
Djurasovic Mladen$2M

Top specialties

By total received, 2018–2024
Orthopaedic Surgery$22M
Surgery of the Hand$15M
Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spi…$13M
Dermatology$9M
Hematology & Oncology$7M
Gastroenterology$6M
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Meta…$6M
Psychiatry$6M

By the numbers, 2018–2024

29,320

physicians and teaching hospitals took at least one payment.

$522M

reported across 1,684,141 individual payments.