Question 1

Has Leonard Weiner received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,949,699 in general payments to Leonard Weiner across 661 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 Leonard Weiner 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 Leonard Weiner 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
Modernatx, Inc.	151	$3,731,203
Pfizer	171	$432,146
Merck	155	$319,251
GSK	83	$236,104
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	11	$87,660
Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.	4	$87,141
Astellas US Technologies	78	$24,846
Astellas Pharma Global Development	2	$15,890
Regeneron	5	$13,858
Gilead	1	$1,600

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