Amanda Sandles
Detroit, MINPI 1437772696
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 110 payments — averaging $43.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Boston Scientific$973
- Medtronic$656
- Inari Medical, Inc.$643
- Abiomed$396
- Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.$336
- Amgen$280
- plus $2K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,69397%
- Education$1383%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Boston Scientific | 23 | $973 |
| Medtronic | 21 | $656 |
| Inari Medical, Inc. | 4 | $643 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $396 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 5 | $336 |
| Amgen | 9 | $280 |
| Novo Nordisk | 6 | $226 |
| Abbott | 3 | $186 |
| Merck | 4 | $164 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $162 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $115 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $79 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $69 |
| Terumo Medical Corporation | 3 | $66 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $64 |
| Cardiva Medical, Inc. | 1 | $50 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $49 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $37 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $34 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $26 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Bayer | 1 | $23 |
| Teleflex LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $13 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- FLOWTRIEVER CATHETER, S$643
- CT THROMBECTOMY SYSTEM KIT$643
- Assure WCD$250
- VERQUVO$238
- WATCHMAN FLX$155
- COBALT DR MRI SURESCAN$151
- Indigo System$143
- ACCOLADE SR$140
- ENSITE$138
- Wegovy$123
- Repatha$123
- JARDIANCE$115
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.