Question 1

Has Carlos Romero received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,149,483 in general payments to Carlos Romero across 1,937 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 Carlos Romero 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 Carlos Romero 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
Modernatx, Inc.	1,711	$768,035
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	16	$341,295
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	209	$30,224
Merck	1	$9,930

Carlos Romero

Payments from drug & device makers

Who reported the general payments