Question 1

Has Hilario Alvarado, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,217,278 in general payments to Hilario Alvarado, MD across 143 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 Hilario Alvarado, MD 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 Hilario Alvarado, MD 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
Modernatx, Inc.	86	$1,832,766
Eli Lilly	24	$132,805
GSK	11	$111,253
Novavax Inc	12	$94,459
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	9	$29,195
AstraZeneca	1	$16,800

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