Question 1

Has Kristen Theobald received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,218 in general payments to Kristen Theobald across 128 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 Kristen Theobald 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 Kristen Theobald 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
Amgen	29	$451
Novo Nordisk	17	$292
GSK	12	$178
Merck	8	$139
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	6	$137
Sobi, Inc	7	$125
Pfizer	6	$84
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	4	$79
Dexcom, Inc.	3	$72
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	4	$67
AstraZeneca	4	$55
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	2	$45
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$45
Abbott	2	$41
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	2	$40
AbbVie	2	$40
Medtronic	1	$37
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$35
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$33
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$31
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$29
Bayer	2	$27
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$22
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$21
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	1	$20
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$20
Shield Therapeutics Inc	1	$18
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$17

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