Question 1

Has Joseph Hashem received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,633 in general payments to Joseph Hashem across 763 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 Joseph Hashem 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 Joseph Hashem 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
Lilly USA, LLC	53	$3,691
AbbVie(2 entities)	127	$2,197
AstraZeneca	75	$1,914
Bayer	36	$1,882
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	5	$1,469
Amgen(2 entities)	59	$1,365
Novo Nordisk	42	$820
Pfizer	41	$700
Astellas Pharma US Inc	26	$671
Johnson & Johnson	32	$660
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	27	$613
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	24	$573
GSK	34	$539
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	24	$531
Abbott	32	$506
Boehringer Ingelheim	18	$463
Corcept Therapeutics	9	$253
Merck	13	$249
Eisai Inc.	6	$171
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	10	$163
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$141
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	9	$139
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	6	$137
Novartis	9	$114
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$89
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$69
Radius Health, Inc.	3	$63
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$57
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	4	$53
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	3	$52
Mylan Specialty L.p.	2	$41
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	2	$35
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$34
Medtronic	1	$29
Viatris Specialty LLC	1	$24
Vertex	1	$19
Averitas Pharma Inc.	1	$18
Lundbeck LLC	1	$18
Bioventus LLC	1	$18
Sequel Med Tech, LLC	1	$16
Dynavax Technologies Corporation	1	$15
Insulet Corporation	1	$14
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$11

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