Has Raghu Varier received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,211 in general payments to Raghu Varier across 44 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Raghu Varier did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Raghu Varier come from?

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.

Raghu Varier

Pediatric Gastroenterology · Portland, ORNPI 1568623072

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 44 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 13 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $352 and has fallen 87.4% since, to $44 in 2025.

$1,211in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 44 payments — averaging $27.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$239
AbbVie$199
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$194
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$181
Sanofi$108
Regeneron$76
plus $214 from 7 others

$157,901in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $15,790 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.

Bristol Myers Squibb$131K
Bausch Health US, LLC$22K
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$5K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,211100%

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
Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$239
AbbVie	6	$199
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	7	$194
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	8	$181
Sanofi	4	$108
Regeneron	1	$76
Alcresta Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$45
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$33
Travere Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$33
Pfizer	2	$33
Sandoz	1	$27
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$25
AstraZeneca	1	$18

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.

Livmarli$107

How this compares

Too few pediatric gastroenterology providers in Oregonto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Other pediatric gastroenterology in Portland

Kristina LeinwandPortland$49K
Henry LinPortland$23K
Hillary BashawPortland$11K
Ariel PortoPortland$1K
Kathryn MoyerPortland$183
Melissa SheikoPortland$48
Anna HunterPortland$26
Albert ShanPortland$15
Emily WhitfieldPortland$15
Sylvia DoanPortland$15

See the full list for Oregon →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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