Question 1

Has Kulumani Sivarajan received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $19,430 in general payments to Kulumani Sivarajan across 101 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 Kulumani Sivarajan 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 Kulumani Sivarajan 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	10	$8,737
GSK	2	$2,491
Beigene, Ltd.	1	$1,800
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$1,681
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$1,550
Astrazeneca UK Limited	1	$1,388
Novocure GmbH	1	$250
Novartis	11	$196
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	9	$192
Merck	6	$123
Incyte Corporation	4	$120
Lilly USA, LLC	3	$58
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	4	$57
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	2	$53
Astellas Pharma US Inc	3	$52
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	3	$52
Eisai Inc.	3	$50
Global Blood Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$47
Bayer	3	$41
Sanofi	2	$36
Beigene USA, Inc.	2	$34
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$32
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	2	$32
Seagen Inc.	2	$30
AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$29
Exelixis Inc.	2	$28
Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.	2	$25
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$25
Organon	1	$24
Amgen	1	$22
Foundation Medicine, Inc.	1	$20
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	1	$19
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$19
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$19
Cardinal Health 414 LLC	1	$17
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$15
Coherus Oncology, Inc.	1	$15
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	1	$15
Aurobindo Pharma USA, Inc.	1	$13
Pfizer	1	$12
Tesaro, Inc.	1	$12

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