Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.: payments to doctors
Reported under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act for Open Payments program years 2019–2025. Figures group every CMS reporting entity belonging to this corporate parent.
- Total reported
- $39.2M
- Providers paid
- 20,130
- Transactions
- 82,821
- Average per transaction
- $473
The average per transaction — $473 — is the number worth reading. A large total spread across hundreds of thousands of transactions is a company buying a great many modest meals at educational presentations. A large total across few transactions means consulting, speaking or royalty arrangements with a small number of physicians. The totals alone do not distinguish them.
Where the money went
| State | Total reported | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Florida | $14,308,251 | 36.5% |
| Kansas | $8,560,052 | 21.8% |
| California | $3,521,877 | 9.0% |
| New York | $1,578,695 | 4.0% |
| Missouri | $1,467,128 | 3.7% |
| Ohio | $1,078,273 | 2.7% |
| Puerto Rico | $902,028 | 2.3% |
| Texas | $852,935 | 2.2% |
| Arizona | $669,529 | 1.7% |
| Pennsylvania | $514,738 | 1.3% |
| New Jersey | $514,151 | 1.3% |
| Georgia | $466,317 | 1.2% |
| Virginia | $390,563 | 1.0% |
| South Carolina | $379,193 | 1.0% |
| Alabama | $348,101 | 0.9% |
| North Carolina | $316,249 | 0.8% |
| Tennessee | $271,225 | 0.7% |
| Oklahoma | $253,100 | 0.6% |
| Hawaii | $251,256 | 0.6% |
| Illinois | $234,150 | 0.6% |
| Colorado | $233,352 | 0.6% |
| Washington | $232,739 | 0.6% |
| Massachusetts | $207,872 | 0.5% |
| Connecticut | $191,736 | 0.5% |
| Indiana | $181,627 | 0.5% |
| Michigan | $170,315 | 0.4% |
| Utah | $144,986 | 0.4% |
| Mississippi | $140,068 | 0.4% |
| Arkansas | $122,768 | 0.3% |
| South Dakota | $104,113 | 0.3% |
| Kentucky | $87,008 | 0.2% |
| Maryland | $85,900 | 0.2% |
| Louisiana | $71,198 | 0.2% |
| Wisconsin | $63,880 | 0.2% |
| Nevada | $47,478 | 0.1% |
| West Virginia | $41,146 | 0.1% |
| Rhode Island | $40,035 | 0.1% |
| Minnesota | $37,327 | 0.1% |
| Delaware | $32,521 | 0.1% |
| Oregon | $27,499 | 0.1% |
| Maine | $25,266 | 0.1% |
| Idaho | $12,962 | 0.0% |
| Vermont | $12,136 | 0.0% |
| Nebraska | $7,843 | 0.0% |
| Iowa | $4,652 | 0.0% |
| District of Columbia | $3,483 | 0.0% |
| New Hampshire | $3,247 | 0.0% |
| New Mexico | $2,335 | 0.0% |
| Montana | $368 | 0.0% |
| Alaska | $169 | 0.0% |
| North Dakota | $154 | 0.0% |
| Wyoming | $119 | 0.0% |
| GU | $15 | 0.0% |
| U.S. Virgin Islands | $13 | 0.0% |