Question 1

Has Gil Hoftman received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $199,941 in general payments to Gil Hoftman across 195 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 Gil Hoftman 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 Gil Hoftman 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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	185	$199,362
Neuronetics, Inc.	5	$334
Johnson & Johnson	1	$114
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$77
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$28
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$25

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