Question 1

Has Rachael Wheelock received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $16,554 in general payments to Rachael Wheelock across 915 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 Wheelock 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 Wheelock 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
Amgen(2 entities)	162	$3,228
Johnson & Johnson	229	$2,684
AbbVie	158	$2,215
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	35	$1,240
UCB, Inc.	56	$1,104
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	22	$865
Novartis	41	$860
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	17	$303
Boehringer Ingelheim	9	$303
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	3	$289
Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.	7	$284
Pfizer	18	$273
United Therapeutics Corporation	3	$255
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	14	$254
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	15	$210
Radius Health, Inc.	11	$185
Lilly USA, LLC	9	$183
Novo Nordisk	10	$179
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$170
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	10	$134
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	15	$127
Organon	6	$124
Alvogen Inc	7	$114
Sobi, Inc	6	$110
GSK	2	$90
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$68
Antares Pharma, Inc.	4	$66
Sanofi	3	$57
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	2	$54
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	4	$53
Biogen	2	$53
Sandoz	3	$52
Kiniksa Pharmaceuticals International, PLC	2	$42
QOL Medical, LLC	3	$38
Gilead	2	$35
Merck	1	$33
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$29
Exact Sciences	1	$23
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$21
Mylan Institutional Inc.	1	$20
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Exeltis, USA Inc.	1	$18
Bristol Myers Squibb	1	$16
Dynavax Technologies Corporation	1	$16
Bayer	1	$16
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$15
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	1	$14
Bioventus LLC	1	$14

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