Question 1

Has Carol Eickhorn received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $12,252 in general payments to Carol Eickhorn across 610 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 Carol Eickhorn 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 Carol Eickhorn 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)	105	$1,150
Novartis	67	$871
Amgen	24	$644
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	19	$597
UCB, Inc.	24	$557
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	30	$514
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	29	$490
Johnson & Johnson	18	$480
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$446
Lilly USA, LLC	25	$369
Eisai Inc.	12	$348
Sanofi	10	$322
EMD Serono, Inc.	10	$316
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	11	$300
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	9	$286
Lundbeck LLC	8	$270
Neurelis, Inc.	13	$263
Argenx US, Inc.	9	$238
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	12	$230
Bristol Myers Squibb	8	$229
MDD US Operations, LLC	9	$217
Octapharma USA, Inc.	10	$211
Biogen	11	$206
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$187
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$180
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	9	$175
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$167
CSL Behring	7	$159
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	7	$153
Genentech USA, Inc.	6	$146
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$134
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$120
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	7	$118
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$117
Grifols USA, LLC	6	$102
Pfizer	4	$89
Harmony Biosciences LLC	2	$86
SK Life Science, Inc.	4	$84
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$83
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	5	$78
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	4	$68
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$58
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$57
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$49
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$49
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	3	$48
Boston Scientific	2	$36
Merck	2	$32
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$22
Medtronic	1	$21
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$20
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Avion Pharmaceuticals	1	$17
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$16
Dynasplint Systems Inc.	1	$7
Corium, LLC	1	$3

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