Question 1

Has Lauren Johnson received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,167 in general payments to Lauren Johnson across 652 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 Lauren Johnson 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 Lauren Johnson 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	156	$1,864
Novo Nordisk	63	$996
Pfizer	54	$961
GSK	59	$924
Lilly USA, LLC	62	$884
Abbott	40	$694
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	27	$454
Dexcom, Inc.	19	$383
Bayer	21	$360
Exact Sciences	21	$350
AstraZeneca	19	$300
Boehringer Ingelheim	14	$224
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	9	$210
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$174
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$143
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	7	$109
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$86
Merck	6	$82
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$82
Amgen	4	$80
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$76
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$72
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$71
Eisai Inc.	4	$61
Genentech USA, Inc.	4	$49
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	3	$49
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$49
Johnson & Johnson	3	$48
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$44
Novartis	2	$42
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$31
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$31
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	2	$29
Biosense Webster, Inc.	1	$21
Tris Pharma Inc	1	$21
Mannkind Corporation	1	$21
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$21
Antares Pharma, Inc.	1	$20
Shield Therapeutics Inc	1	$18
Corcept Therapeutics	1	$18
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$16

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