Paul Schuler
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Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 197 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 21 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 197 payments — averaging $14.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$632
- Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$514
- AstraZeneca$343
- Boehringer Ingelheim$249
- United Therapeutics Corporation$235
- Genentech USA, Inc.$173
- plus $735 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,876100%
- Education$40%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 51 | $632 |
| Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc. | 54 | $514 |
| AstraZeneca | 20 | $343 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 15 | $249 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 13 | $235 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 11 | $173 |
| Philips North America LLC | 6 | $164 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 3 | $151 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 5 | $86 |
| Merck | 4 | $48 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 2 | $43 |
| Novartis | 2 | $42 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $33 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $29 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Gilead | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $19 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $16 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $13 |
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.