Question 1

Has Heather Baird received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $14,540 in general payments to Heather Baird across 1,123 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 Heather Baird 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 Heather Baird 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
AbbVie	265	$3,696
Amgen(2 entities)	117	$1,420
Novo Nordisk	161	$1,304
Lilly USA, LLC	94	$1,115
Pfizer	108	$957
AstraZeneca	35	$790
Bayer	35	$784
Boehringer Ingelheim	43	$555
GSK	21	$318
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	26	$300
Astellas Pharma US Inc	13	$280
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	19	$268
Johnson & Johnson	17	$259
Lundbeck LLC	35	$231
Corcept Therapeutics	7	$219
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	17	$209
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	12	$197
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	23	$185
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	6	$166
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$144
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$119
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$116
Abbott	5	$107
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	6	$90
Merck	5	$78
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	4	$74
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$56
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	4	$56
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$56
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	3	$49
Novartis	3	$43
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$36
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$36
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$30
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$23
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$22
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$20
Exact Sciences	1	$18
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$17
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$15
Seqirus USA Inc	1	$15
Qiagen, LLC	1	$14
Biogen	1	$14
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$14
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$13
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	1	$13

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