Question 1

Has Patrick Cooney received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $90,569 in general payments to Patrick Cooney across 1,578 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 Patrick Cooney 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 Patrick Cooney 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	189	$31,072
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	73	$20,753
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	145	$18,362
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	142	$2,749
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	121	$2,563
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	141	$2,294
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	113	$1,871
Corium, LLC	78	$1,561
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	50	$1,075
Alkermes, Inc.	52	$1,014
Tris Pharma Inc	67	$907
Lundbeck LLC	60	$862
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	43	$659
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	30	$557
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	39	$511
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	25	$406
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	26	$348
Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC	17	$323
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	23	$277
Almatica Pharma LLC	16	$275
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	28	$272
Bausch Health US, LLC	14	$265
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	14	$257
Novo Nordisk	6	$210
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$191
Neos Therapeutics, LP	11	$160
Merck	6	$115
Indivior Inc.	5	$101
Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd.	6	$94
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$82
Eisai Inc.	4	$77
Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$73
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$63
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	3	$61
OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$53
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	3	$42
Neuronetics, Inc.	2	$13

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