Question 1

Has Debra Swoverland received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,783 in general payments to Debra Swoverland across 838 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 Debra Swoverland 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 Debra Swoverland 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	130	$1,727
GSK	92	$1,376
AstraZeneca	58	$1,157
Novo Nordisk	69	$928
Lilly USA, LLC	52	$875
Amgen	45	$718
Astellas Pharma US Inc	25	$518
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	32	$507
Pfizer	27	$503
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	16	$386
Boehringer Ingelheim	20	$386
Bayer	19	$345
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	20	$337
Lundbeck LLC	17	$320
Dexcom, Inc.	15	$299
Mylan Specialty L.p.	16	$296
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	15	$262
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	12	$241
Alkermes, Inc.	11	$215
Exact Sciences	9	$184
Merck	11	$184
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	19	$180
Corium, LLC	12	$166
Johnson & Johnson	9	$143
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	7	$124
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$117
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$116
Eisai Inc.	6	$114
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	7	$112
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$111
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$108
Novartis	7	$103
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	5	$79
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$74
Indivior Inc.	2	$63
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	4	$60
Antares Pharma, Inc.	4	$58
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	4	$54
Medtronic	3	$50
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$42
Boston Scientific	2	$33
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$23
Viatris Specialty LLC	1	$23
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$20
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Philips North America LLC	1	$13

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