Question 1

Has Manuel Lam received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $527,776 in general payments to Manuel Lam across 75 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 Manuel Lam 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 Manuel Lam 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
CSL Behring	27	$259,099
Chiesi USA, Inc.	26	$162,642
Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc.	15	$73,189
GSK	6	$31,746
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$1,100

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