RxDoctor Payments Data

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Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 4 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merz North America, Inc..

$374in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 4 payments — averaging $93.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merz North America, Inc.$374
$13,370,869in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 797 payments — averaging $16,776 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • AstraZeneca$5M
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$2.6M
  • Pfizer$2.3M
  • AbbVie$1M
  • Organon$498K
  • Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.$381K
  • plus $1.6M from 17 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$374100%

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.

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merz North America, Inc.4$374

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.

Where these figures come from

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