Question 1

Has Hiralal Maheshwari received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $642,223 in general payments to Hiralal Maheshwari across 1,117 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 Hiralal Maheshwari 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 Hiralal Maheshwari 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	86	$265,517
Sanofi US Services Inc.	41	$228,545
Novartis	4	$38,914
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	115	$37,070
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	77	$22,233
Bayer	36	$17,467
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$14,760
Johnson & Johnson	10	$2,483
Dexcom, Inc.	74	$2,003
Lilly USA, LLC	122	$1,840
Eli Lilly	2	$1,784
Boehringer Ingelheim	92	$1,487
Abbott	87	$1,137
Corcept Therapeutics	50	$1,073
Mannkind Corporation	63	$863
Amgen(2 entities)	35	$666
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.	13	$643
Merck	39	$625
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	27	$518
IBSA Pharma Inc.	23	$372
Radius Health, Inc.	21	$341
Antares Pharma, Inc.	16	$327
BD	6	$194
Medtronic(2 entities)	5	$164
Eisai Inc.	12	$137
Novo Nordisk	6	$130
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$113
Shire North American Group Inc	4	$97
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	5	$93
Clarus Therapeutics Inc.	7	$91
Vivus LLC	7	$90
Halozyme Inc	3	$59
Insulet Corporation	2	$44
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$39
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$39
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$36
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	2	$35
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$32
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$24
Embecta Corp.	1	$23
Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Zealand Pharma US, Inc.	1	$19
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Companion Medical, Inc.	1	$17
Pfizer	1	$16
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$16
Lifescan, Inc.	1	$15

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