Jina Chung
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Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $28.85 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$1K
- Pfizer$358
- Johnson & Johnson$315
- Novartis$314
- Heartflow, Inc.$223
- Amgen$180
- plus $1K from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$461%
- Food & beverage$3,44599%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 27 | $1,007 |
| Pfizer | 19 | $358 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 11 | $315 |
| Novartis | 13 | $314 |
| Heartflow, Inc. | 6 | $223 |
| Amgen | 6 | $180 |
| Abbott | 5 | $177 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $167 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 6 | $118 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 6 | $117 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 3 | $112 |
| Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC | 2 | $53 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $49 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Lantheus Medical Imaging, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 2 | $42 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $41 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $34 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $20 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- CoreValve Evolut$167
- XARELTO$123
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.