Question 1

Has Charina Toste received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $392,915 in general payments to Charina Toste across 797 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 Charina Toste 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 Charina Toste 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
Incyte Corporation	502	$253,605
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	171	$67,445
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	54	$37,194
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	26	$27,005
Amgen	10	$2,598
Bristol Myers Squibb	5	$2,319
GSK	1	$1,500
Merz North America, Inc.	7	$382
Sanofi	2	$240
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	2	$224
AbbVie(2 entities)	10	$210
Johnson & Johnson	2	$112
Merck	1	$20
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$17
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$17
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$13
AstraZeneca	1	$12

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