Question 1

Has Alan Go received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,715,241 in general payments to Alan Go across 37 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Question 2

Does a payment mean Alan Go did something wrong?

Accepted Answer

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Question 3

Where does this information about Alan Go come from?

Accepted Answer

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Company	Payments	Total
CSL Behring	6	$1,135,586
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	22	$313,483
Gilead	2	$246,828
Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH	1	$15,300
Novartis	3	$2,880
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$970
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$193

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