Question 1

Has Franklin Cline received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $458,372 in general payments to Franklin Cline across 678 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 Franklin Cline 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 Franklin Cline 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
Johnson & Johnson	591	$445,174
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	8	$8,772
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	13	$1,699
AbbVie	15	$380
Amgen	2	$279
Sanofi	2	$229
Alkermes, Inc.	2	$220
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	7	$167
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$166
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	6	$149
Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$122
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$115
Mannkind Corporation	1	$106
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	4	$103
Incyte Corporation	1	$103
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$100
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$87
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$81
Lundbeck LLC	3	$74
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$70
Indivior Inc.	3	$67
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	2	$34
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$30
Novo Nordisk	1	$24
Pfizer	1	$21

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