Question 1

Has Phyllis Weingarten, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $505 in general payments to Phyllis Weingarten, MD across 14 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 Phyllis Weingarten, MD 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 Phyllis Weingarten, MD 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
Visioneering Technologies, Inc.	1	$144
Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$73
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	3	$66
Novartis	1	$63
Coopervision Inc.	2	$55
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$48
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$25
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$19
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	1	$13

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