Question 1

Has Richard Bell, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $185 in general payments to Richard Bell, MD across 8 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 Richard Bell, 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 Richard Bell, 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
Pfizer	3	$105
Novartis	3	$45
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$19
Novo Nordisk	1	$17

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Metronidazole	139	$7,233
Ketoconazole	328	$5,591
Clobetasol Propionate	89	$4,166
Tacrolimus	30	$3,760
Fluorouracil	40	$2,748
Triamcinolone Acetonide	186	$2,531
Tretinoin	15	$2,270
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	84	$2,114
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc	43	$2,109
Doxycycline Monohydrate	57	$1,648
Mupirocin	188	$1,410
Mometasone Furoate	62	$1,255
Hydrocortisone	129	$1,080
Clindamycin Phosphate	20	$732
Doxycycline Hyclate	13	$690

Richard Bell, MD

Payments from drug & device makers

Who reported the general payments

How this compares

Medicare billing

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