Question 1

Has Rachael Hartke received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,164 in general payments to Rachael Hartke across 906 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 Rachael Hartke 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 Rachael Hartke 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	168	$2,936
Johnson & Johnson	143	$2,475
Amgen(2 entities)	116	$1,672
Pfizer	101	$1,527
UCB, Inc.	65	$1,334
Novartis	83	$1,288
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	51	$1,160
Lilly USA, LLC	52	$918
GSK	35	$555
Radius Health, Inc.	13	$329
Organon	14	$286
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	7	$275
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	2	$245
Sobi, Inc	8	$237
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	4	$105
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$91
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	5	$90
Grifols USA, LLC	4	$89
Sandoz	5	$71
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	3	$67
Octapharma USA, Inc.	3	$66
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$51
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	3	$43
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	2	$37
Hospira, Inc.	1	$34
Sanofi	1	$33
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$32
Merck	2	$31
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$27
Celltrion USA Inc.	1	$17
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$15
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$15
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13

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