Question 1

Has Labrene Tangalos received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $13,987 in general payments to Labrene Tangalos across 750 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 Labrene Tangalos 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 Labrene Tangalos 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(2 entities)	88	$1,544
EMD Serono, Inc.	62	$1,532
Novartis	107	$1,205
UCB, Inc.	53	$862
Biogen	31	$786
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	50	$633
Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$579
Lilly USA, LLC	40	$578
Amgen(2 entities)	35	$505
Pfizer	36	$453
Neurelis, Inc.	21	$445
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	17	$441
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	13	$415
Bristol Myers Squibb	19	$388
Harmony Biosciences LLC	14	$377
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	13	$316
Argenx US, Inc.	13	$293
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	10	$289
Sanofi	11	$240
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	12	$226
Lundbeck LLC	8	$204
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	16	$201
Corium, LLC	9	$142
Eisai Inc.	6	$136
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	6	$130
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$112
Johnson & Johnson	5	$90
Avadel CNS Pharmaceuticals, LLC	4	$87
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	3	$86
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$84
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$78
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	3	$67
CSL Behring	3	$63
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$57
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$54
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$52
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$50
SK Life Science, Inc.	2	$45
AstraZeneca	1	$29
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	1	$25
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$21
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$21
Hospira, Inc.	1	$18
Avion Pharmaceuticals	1	$17
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$14

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