Labour asked for the data to be released to Parliament.
The government blamed "unacceptably lax" contracts that allow staff to re-join the NHS a month after redundancy.
It says it's working on tough new plans to cap payouts, and has reduced administrative posts overall.
Labour shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said it would be galling for nurses who were battling over pay to see, as he put it, cheques handed out like confetti.
Auditors have previously reported that the average payout was £43,000.
The number of national health service staff estimated to have been made redundant and later re-employed almost doubled in the last year - from 2,200 managers - Ministerial responses to Parliamentary Questions have revealed.
The total now stands at 3,950.
Overall, more than 10,000 full-time workers were made redundant from the NHS in England since the restructuring of the service.
Changes introduced in April 2013 have seen 150 primary care trusts, run by managers, replaced with 211 clinical commissioning groups, led by family doctors.
Health Minister Dr Dan Poulter said: "By reducing managers and administrators by over 21,100, we are freeing up extra resources for patient care - £5.5 billion in this Parliament and £1.5 billion every year thereafter."

Estate agent George Low, 22, from Dartford, was stabbed in the neck near a nightclub in Ayia Napa on Sunday.
Cypriot police said an argument broke out after the alleged attackers took exception to two British men urinating in the street.
A shoving match is then said to have broken out before Mr Low and his friend, Ben Barker, 22, were stabbed.
Mr Barker had knife wounds to his back in the attack in Grigori Axfentiou Street, but survived.
Arrest warrants have been issued for two Turkish Cypriot men, Mehmet Akpinar, 22, and 42-year-old Sali Ahmet.
Police have also issued a warrant for a third man suspected to have helped the suspects escape to the Turkish-held north of the holiday island.
A 48-year-old Greek Cypriot woman has been remanded in custody on suspicion of being an accessory to murder.
George Economou, deputy police chief of the Famagusta region, said officers had been told the two British men were urinating in the street and two Turkish Cypriot men told them not to do it in public, which led to an argument breaking out.
He said 11 minutes later, the men allegedly returned with a knife.
The group did not know each other beforehand, Mr Economou added.
He said police were continuing to look for CCTV to try to trace the route the suspects took to escape.
Checkpoints and airports have been put on alert, he added.
The woman who has been taken into custody pending further inquiries - but has not been charged - is said to be the girlfriend of Mr Akpinar and is accused of taking him a fresh pair of clothes and retrieving his mobile phone.
A district court in Larnaca remanded her in custody for eight days.
Mr Low's mother, Helen, 47, has said her son, a former club manager at the resort, was not an aggressive person and had simply been "in the wrong place at the wrong time".
She said he and Mr Barker had been due to fly home later the same day.
New figures indicate that almost 4,000 staff made redundant from the NHS in England, before last year's major restructuring, have since been re-employed.
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A British holidaymaker stabbed to death in Cyprus was involved in a row about urinating in public, police have said.