Question 1

Has Jeffry Pilney received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,159,013 in general payments to Jeffry Pilney across 590 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 Jeffry Pilney 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 Jeffry Pilney 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
AstraZeneca	28	$612,915
Ipsen Innovation	327	$359,470
AbbVie	109	$346,594
Genentech, Inc.	30	$271,798
Modernatx, Inc.	53	$230,276
Orasure Technologies Inc.	5	$110,000
Chiesi USA, Inc.	12	$96,659
Pfizer	8	$79,550
GSK	11	$37,876
Eli Lilly	3	$8,994
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.	4	$4,882

Jeffry Pilney

Payments from drug & device makers

Who reported the general payments