Question 1

Has George Geils received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $153,178 in general payments to George Geils across 355 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 George Geils 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 George Geils 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
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.	24	$119,529
Beigene, Ltd.	4	$16,640
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$7,900
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	1	$2,481
Johnson & Johnson	18	$750
Pfizer	42	$687
Gilead(2 entities)	15	$459
Novartis	25	$433
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	19	$426
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	19	$356
GSK	18	$286
Incyte Corporation	11	$247
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	13	$237
Bristol Myers Squibb	11	$213
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	11	$186
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	9	$178
Genentech USA, Inc.	9	$153
Seagen Inc.	9	$152
Merck	9	$142
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$137
Eisai Inc.	6	$122
Lilly USA, LLC	5	$111
Amgen	6	$101
EMD Serono, Inc.	5	$89
AbbVie	4	$85
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	3	$82
Stryker	1	$63
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.	3	$59
Sanofi	2	$54
Dova Pharmaceuticals	3	$53
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$52
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$49
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	3	$47
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$41
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	2	$41
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$40
Immunogen, Inc.	2	$40
Epizyme, Inc.	3	$39
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$28
Tesaro, Inc.	2	$28
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	1	$27
CSL Behring	1	$26
Myovant Sciences Inc.	1	$26
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$24
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$23
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$21
Shield Therapeutics Inc	1	$21
Medtronic	1	$21
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$20
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	1	$20
G1 Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$18
Caris MPI, Inc.	1	$18
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	1	$17
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$17
Blue Earth Diagnostics	1	$16
Mylan Institutional Inc.	1	$12

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