Question 1

Has Margaret Scannell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $549 in general payments to Margaret Scannell, MD across 29 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 Margaret Scannell, MD 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 Margaret Scannell, MD 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
Johnson & Johnson	7	$110
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$82
Merck	3	$60
Inari Medical, Inc.	2	$51
AstraZeneca	2	$38
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$37
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$35
Boston Scientific	1	$33
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$32
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$31
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	1	$15
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$13
Gilead	1	$12

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