Question 1

Has Audrey Puentes, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,566 in general payments to Audrey Puentes, MD across 27 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 Audrey Puentes, MD 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 Audrey Puentes, MD 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
Mimedx Group, Inc.	2	$2,000
Biogen	9	$197
Shield Therapeutics Inc	2	$108
Organon	4	$82
Conmed Corporation	2	$41
Pfizer	2	$36
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$35
Exeltis, USA Inc.	2	$30
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$20
Avanos Medical	1	$17

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Estradiol	70	$2,602
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized	19	$685

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