Peter Weissman
Miami, FLNPI 1841274529
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $83,050 of the $99,285 with a category attached, or 83.6%. Radius Health, Inc. accounts for 64.9% of it on its own, with 14 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $79,950 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $92 in 2022.
Across 165 payments — averaging $601.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Radius Health, Inc.$64K
- Amgen$31K
- GSK$3K
- AstraZeneca$197
- Abbott$89
- Medtronic$72
- plus $338 from 9 others
Across 137 payments — averaging $2208.46 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Abbott$122K
- Bayer$82K
- Radius Health, Inc.$62K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$19K
- GSK$19K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$3,2203%
- Speaking & faculty fees$83,05084%
- Travel & lodging$10,21110%
- Food & beverage$2,7543%
- Education$500%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Radius Health, Inc. | 89 | $64,475 |
| Amgen | 38 | $30,893 |
| GSK | 1 | $3,220 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 10 | $197 |
| Abbott | 5 | $89 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 4 | $72 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $65 |
| Merck | 4 | $62 |
| Senseonics, Incorporated | 1 | $62 |
| Insulet Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Roche Diabetes Care, Inc. | 2 | $35 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.