Has David Akers received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,631 in general payments to David Akers across 76 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean David Akers did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about David Akers come from?

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.

David Akers

Pediatrics · Grayson, KYNPI 1720308083

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 76 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at 29.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $575 and has fallen 62.0% since, to $218 in 2025.

$1,631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 76 payments — averaging $21.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$472
Dexcom, Inc.$168
Merck$127
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$111
Grifols USA, LLC$81
GSK$71
plus $601 from 20 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,631100%

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.

General payments by program year

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
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	10	$472
Dexcom, Inc.	11	$168
Merck	9	$127
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$111
Grifols USA, LLC	4	$81
GSK	5	$71
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$67
Novo Nordisk	3	$56
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$53
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$38
Sobi, Inc	2	$38
Philips North America LLC	2	$38
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$36
Bayer	2	$33
Biomarin Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$30
Harmony Biosciences LLC	1	$29
Roche Diagnostics Corporation	1	$25
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$24
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$22
Pfizer	1	$20
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$18
Procept Biorobotics Corporation	1	$17
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$16
Johnson & Johnson	1	$16
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
Phadia US Inc.	1	$13

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.

QELBREE$372

How this compares

$1,631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 777 pediatrics providers in Kentucky.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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