Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,471 in general payments to Richard Bonsall, MD across 23 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 Bonsall, 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 Bonsall, 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
Histosonics, Inc.	2	$1,871
Terumo Medical Corporation	2	$118
Agiliti Surgical, Inc.	2	$117
MIM Software Inc.	3	$64
Medtronic	2	$57
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	2	$53
Healthtronics Stone Solutions, LLC	3	$42
Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc	1	$36
Cook Medical LLC	3	$35
BD	1	$34
Boston Scientific	1	$31
Biocompatibles, Inc.	1	$13

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