Mazyar Motahedeh
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Payments from drug & device makers
Across 253 payments — averaging $24.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Antares Pharma, Inc.$663
- Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$609
- Johnson & Johnson$528
- Pfizer$442
- Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$370
- plus $2K from 33 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,93097%
- Education$1853%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 61 | $1,263 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 32 | $663 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 15 | $609 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $528 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $442 |
| Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $370 |
| Merck | 11 | $264 |
| Bayer | 9 | $237 |
| Blue Earth Diagnostics | 8 | $184 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 10 | $176 |
| Halozyme Inc | 10 | $155 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 6 | $121 |
| Telix Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $101 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $90 |
| Endo USA, Inc. | 5 | $85 |
| 180 Medical, Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Dendreon Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $61 |
| Immunitybio, Inc. | 2 | $53 |
| Urogen Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $45 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $44 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 2 | $40 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $39 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $37 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 1 | $36 |
| Clarus Therapeutics Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Vertex | 1 | $34 |
| Novartis | 1 | $31 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| BD | 1 | $29 |
| C. R. Bard, Inc. & Subsidiaries | 1 | $27 |
| Caris MPI, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Procept Biorobotics Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Urovant Sciences Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $19 |
| Profound Medical Corp. | 1 | $18 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.