Has Edward Katz received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,095 in general payments to Edward Katz across 850 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 Edward Katz 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 Edward Katz 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.

Edward Katz

Rheumatology · Fredericksburg, VANPI 1568591345

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,095in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 850 payments — averaging $17.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$2K
Amgen$2K
Pfizer$2K
Novartis$1K
Johnson & Johnson$1K
Lilly USA, LLC$1K
plus $6K from 42 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$7005%
Food & beverage$14,21694%
Education$1791%

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
AbbVie	156	$2,302
Amgen(2 entities)	89	$1,861
Pfizer	108	$1,528
Novartis	61	$1,430
Johnson & Johnson	79	$1,396
Lilly USA, LLC	94	$1,076
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	3	$766
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	31	$628
GSK	40	$617
UCB, Inc.	33	$575
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	17	$434
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	28	$382
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	9	$249
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	11	$231
Sandoz	6	$154
Sanofi	8	$148
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	9	$122
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	7	$117
Genentech USA, Inc.	7	$111
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	5	$104
Boehringer Ingelheim	4	$79
Bristol Myers Squibb	4	$75
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	3	$63
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$62
Octapharma USA, Inc.	3	$59
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$57
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	3	$54
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	3	$44
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$32
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	1	$29
Celltrion USA Inc.	1	$26
Medexus Pharma, Inc.	2	$23
United Therapeutics Corporation	1	$21
Abbott	1	$20
Eisai Inc.	1	$20
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$18
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$18
Pharming Healthcare, Inc.	1	$17
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$16
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$16
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$15
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$15
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$15
Forte Bio-pharma LLC	1	$14
Merck	1	$14
Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA	1	$14
Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$13
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$12

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.

ACTHAR$700
Prolia$125
COSENTYX$110

How this compares

$15,095 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 159 rheumatology providers in Virginia.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	18	$193
Tramadol Hcl	25	$191
Zolpidem Tartrate	12	$143

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other rheumatology in Fredericksburg

Rosalia LomeoFredericksburg$17K
Peter LipskyCharlottesville$1.6M
Sharukh ShroffDanville$1.5M
Kristi MizelleNewport News$1.2M
Phillip KempfArlington$467K
Adegbenga BankoleRoanoke$355K
Michael StrachanRichmond$158K
Karim MasriRichmond$147K
Michael CannonVirginia Beach$145K
Phong NguyenReston$127K

See the full list for Virginia →

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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