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Payments from drug & device makers
$1,473,526in general payments, 2019–2025
Across 1,831 payments — averaging $804.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$473K
- Bayer$302K
- Lilly USA, LLC$231K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$212K
- Johnson & Johnson$138K
- Novo Nordisk$72K
- plus $46K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$95,4446%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,191,59981%
- Travel & lodging$142,43710%
- Food & beverage$43,6873%
- Education$3590%
General payments by program year
19
20
21
22
23
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25
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 654 | $473,370 |
| Bayer | 284 | $301,842 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 329 | $230,597 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 273 | $211,714 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 143 | $137,577 |
| Novo Nordisk | 69 | $72,203 |
| Eli Lilly | 10 | $18,292 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $7,057 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 8 | $5,999 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 16 | $5,629 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 9 | $5,132 |
| Amgen | 13 | $2,906 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 9 | $619 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $118 |
| Impulse Dynamics (USA) Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $95 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $91 |
| GSK | 1 | $83 |
| Janssen Global Services, LLC | 1 | $41 |
| Merck | 1 | $36 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 1 | $18 |
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
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.