Question 1

Has Meredith Arends received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,870 in general payments to Meredith Arends across 126 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 Meredith Arends 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 Meredith Arends 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	60	$864
Lilly USA, LLC	13	$224
Novo Nordisk	12	$211
Johnson & Johnson	5	$67
Amgen	5	$63
Boehringer Ingelheim	4	$61
Bayer	4	$61
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$44
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$34
Organogenesis Inc.	2	$33
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$31
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$30
Merck	2	$28
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$24
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Eisai Inc.	1	$16
Pfizer	1	$14
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$13
Abbott	1	$12
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	2	$9

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