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Payments from drug & device makers
Across 104 payments — averaging $24.29 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$649
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$463
- Teleflex LLC$211
- Boston Scientific$199
- AbbVie$154
- Coloplast$150
- plus $701 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,33292%
- Education$1948%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 30 | $649 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 22 | $463 |
| Teleflex LLC | 3 | $211 |
| Boston Scientific | 5 | $199 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 8 | $154 |
| Coloplast | 5 | $150 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $116 |
| Bayer | 4 | $97 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 4 | $95 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $88 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $45 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $44 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $39 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 1 | $26 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Merck | 1 | $18 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $14 |
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.
- UroLift System$149
- GENERAL BPH$134
- XTANDI$116
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.