Question 1

Has Arnold Seto received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $361,510 in general payments to Arnold Seto across 383 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 Arnold Seto 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 Arnold Seto 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
Johnson & Johnson	140	$145,067
Cathworks, Inc.	6	$75,900
Pfizer(2 entities)	12	$43,933
Terumo Medical Corporation	27	$16,589
Amgen	12	$15,201
Getinge USA Sales, LLC	7	$8,724
Novartis	2	$7,821
Boston Scientific	11	$6,633
GE HealthCare	15	$6,317
Opsens Inc.	7	$6,164
Gentuity, LLC	1	$5,480
Merit Medical Systems Inc	7	$3,779
Acist Medical Systems, Inc.	3	$3,494
Janssen Global Services, LLC	1	$3,100
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$2,444
Abbott	24	$1,887
Philips North America LLC	1	$1,688
Maquet Cardiovascular L.L.C.	1	$1,600
Cordis US CORP.	2	$638
Datascope Corp.	8	$555
Shockwave Medical, Inc	3	$529
Medicure Pharma Inc.	1	$500
Recor Medical Inc	4	$480
Biolife, L.L.C.	3	$375
Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc.	3	$290
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	19	$287
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$235
Abiomed	6	$230
Neovasc Medical Inc	1	$210
Atricure, Inc.	9	$194
Boehringer Ingelheim	9	$191
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.	1	$149
Edwards Lifesciences	1	$125
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	6	$96
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$77
AstraZeneca	3	$68
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals, Ltd.	3	$62
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$57
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	2	$57
Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.	4	$56
Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc.	2	$46
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$35
Irhythm Technologies, Inc.	1	$28
Teleflex LLC	1	$27
Altathera Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$26
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$24
Bridgebio Pharma, Inc.	1	$23
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$22

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