Question 1

Has Kellie Vaught received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,336 in general payments to Kellie Vaught across 879 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 Kellie Vaught 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 Kellie Vaught 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	177	$3,216
Novartis	52	$1,585
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	55	$1,482
Pfizer	92	$1,209
UCB, Inc.	51	$903
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	37	$738
EMD Serono, Inc.	21	$676
Biogen	37	$635
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	23	$601
Argenx US, Inc.	29	$559
Neurelis, Inc.	27	$523
SK Life Science, Inc.	20	$484
Lilly USA, LLC	24	$405
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	16	$338
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$327
Sanofi	13	$264
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	14	$252
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	16	$250
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	13	$245
Lundbeck LLC	12	$245
Amgen	15	$216
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	7	$209
Eisai Inc.	11	$171
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$150
CSL Behring	8	$139
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	7	$138
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	8	$135
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	10	$133
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	7	$127
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$127
MDD US Operations, LLC	6	$116
Genentech USA, Inc.	7	$105
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$72
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	5	$68
Life Molecular Imaging Ltd	2	$55
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$50
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$43
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$43
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$39
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	2	$35
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$34
Abbott	2	$33
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$28
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$27
Livanova USA, Inc.	1	$21
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$20
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	1	$19
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$16
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14

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