Has Norton Winer received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $38,882 in general payments to Norton Winer across 606 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Norton Winer did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Norton Winer come from?

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.

Norton Winer

Neurology · Lorain, OHNPI 1194826552

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (39.4%), food and beverage and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. at 47.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $21,504 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $1,323 in 2025.

$38,882in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 606 payments — averaging $64.16 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$18K
Biogen$6K
Livanova USA, Inc.$6K
Novartis$1K
Sanofi$1K
Banner Life Sciences, LLC$900
plus $5K from 36 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$8,20021%
Speaking & faculty fees$15,31439%
Travel & lodging$5,78615%
Food & beverage$9,50124%
Education$820%

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
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	80	$18,287
Biogen	44	$6,048
Livanova USA, Inc.	33	$5,860
Novartis	74	$1,249
Sanofi	35	$1,086
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	1	$900
TG Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$500
Lilly USA, LLC	39	$466
UCB, Inc.	30	$459
EMD Serono, Inc.	18	$316
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	17	$303
Genentech USA, Inc.	26	$287
Johnson & Johnson	22	$244
AbbVie(2 entities)	21	$228
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$223
Lundbeck LLC	12	$197
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	16	$170
Neurelis, Inc.	8	$170
Amgen(2 entities)	8	$170
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	14	$164
Bristol Myers Squibb	16	$152
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$152
AstraZeneca	6	$149
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	13	$148
Harmony Biosciences LLC	5	$129
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$126
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$104
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	5	$84
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	4	$71
Avion Pharmaceuticals	2	$53
Merz North America, Inc.	3	$47
Pfizer	3	$45
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	2	$44
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	3	$44
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	2	$38
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$34
MDD US Operations, LLC	2	$32
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$24
Almatica Pharma LLC	2	$24
Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$23
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$17
Novo Nordisk	1	$16

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.

AJOVY$17,466
VNS Therapy$5,589
Bafiertam$900
BRIUMVI$500
AUBAGIO$480
TYSABRI$450
NOURIANZ$102

How this compares

$38,882 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 702 neurology providers in Ohio.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Levetiracetam	16	$348

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other neurology in Lorain

Dhruv PatelLorain$402K
Aram ZabetiCincinnati$1.6M
Kenneth MankowskiColumbus$1.4M
Aaron BosterColumbus$1.2M
Martin TaylorNew Albany$821K
Jacqueline NicholasColumbus$743K
Lawrence ElmerToledo$687K
Kenneth PugarCenterville$582K
Brendan BauerSheffield Village$548K
Geoffrey EubankColumbus$508K

See the full list for Ohio →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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