Question 1

Has Barry Gritz received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $792,315 in general payments to Barry Gritz across 1,863 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 Barry Gritz 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 Barry Gritz 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
AbbVie(2 entities)	593	$397,203
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	343	$209,468
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	166	$87,511
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	101	$49,307
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	101	$20,646
Corium, LLC	30	$9,649
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	88	$7,991
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	13	$1,074
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	13	$1,047
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	45	$984
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	49	$954
Lundbeck LLC	47	$947
Bausch Health US, LLC	42	$683
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	26	$543
Neos Therapeutics, LP	31	$507
Alkermes, Inc.	19	$500
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	19	$497
Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC	10	$400
Johnson & Johnson	17	$346
Tris Pharma Inc	16	$333
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	13	$251
Almatica Pharma LLC	10	$195
Harmony Biosciences LLC	6	$156
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	8	$143
Shire North American Group Inc	7	$135
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	6	$120
Eisai Inc.	7	$112
OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$101
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$93
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	5	$91
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$88
Merck	6	$86
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	3	$66
Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.	2	$36
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$33
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$16

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