Question 1

Has Helen Trygar received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,639 in general payments to Helen Trygar across 135 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 Helen Trygar 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 Helen Trygar 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	22	$226
Pfizer	12	$188
Novo Nordisk	21	$187
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	18	$145
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	13	$128
GSK	5	$94
Novartis	4	$72
Boehringer Ingelheim	4	$63
Astellas Pharma US Inc	3	$56
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	3	$47
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$46
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$43
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$42
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$33
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$32
AstraZeneca	2	$29
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$28
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$27
Biogen	2	$27
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$26
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$22
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$18
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$16
Radius Health, Inc.	1	$14
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$14
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$14
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$3

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