Question 1

Has Ricardo Saiz received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,099 in general payments to Ricardo Saiz across 1,035 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 Ricardo Saiz 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 Ricardo Saiz 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
GSK	177	$2,843
AstraZeneca	118	$2,786
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	85	$2,070
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	78	$1,887
Boehringer Ingelheim	85	$1,504
United Therapeutics Corporation	55	$1,478
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	58	$1,476
Sanofi	54	$1,268
Insmed, Inc.	38	$1,001
Mylan Specialty L.p.	42	$900
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	31	$647
Grifols USA, LLC	31	$566
Baxter Healthcare	20	$461
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	24	$441
Viatris Specialty LLC	15	$436
Verona Pharma, Inc.	35	$374
Amgen	11	$246
Novartis	11	$205
Bayer	12	$198
Merck	6	$183
Inogen, Inc.	7	$179
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$148
Advanced Respiratory, Inc	5	$101
Genentech USA, Inc.	5	$97
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$66
Electromed, Inc.	3	$55
Johnson & Johnson	3	$54
Pfizer	3	$50
Gilead	2	$43
Inari Medical, Inc.	1	$39
Optinose US, Inc.	2	$34
Phadia US Inc.	2	$34
Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Inc	1	$33
CSL Behring	1	$30
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$27
Pulmonx Corporation	1	$25
Philips North America LLC	1	$24
Nabriva Therapeutics, PLC	1	$21
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$20
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$18
Octapharma USA, Inc.	1	$18
Vapotherm Inc	1	$13

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