Publication date: Dec 12, 2025
To identify trends in industry payments (IPs) to otolaryngologists from 2017 to 2023, particularly evaluating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cross-sectional retrospective analysis. Open Payments Database. Non-research payments to otolaryngologists 2017 to 2023 were characterized by census region, nature of payment, submitting manufacturer, and temporal trends. 448,093 transactions worth $85. 6 million were found with a median payment per physician of $47. 81. Payments sharply decreased in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic ($17. 4 million/year pre-pandemic 2017 to 2019 to $7. 7 million in 2020) but partially rebounded to $13. 7 million/year by 2023. High-value payments (>$10,000) increased significantly post-pandemic (mean 124/year, 2021-2023) compared to pre-pandemic (mean 75/year, 2017-2020, P
| Concepts | Keywords |
|---|---|
| 4million | conflicts of interest |
| Manufacturer | industry payments |
| Otolaryngologists | open payments |
| Pandemic | otolaryngologists |
Semantics
| Type | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| disease | MESH | IPs |
| disease | MESH | COVID-19 pandemic |