Question 1

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

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,908 in general payments to Richard Garling, MD across 55 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 Garling, 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 Garling, 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
Bioventus LLC	4	$3,235
Si-bone, Inc.	18	$2,108
Medtronic	13	$1,379
Stryker	3	$1,225
CSL Behring	2	$246
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	2	$170
Microvention, Inc.	2	$128
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$103
Brainlab, Inc.	1	$86
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	2	$64
Polynovo North America LLC	2	$45
Smith+Nephew	2	$44
Misonix Inc	1	$34
Baxter Healthcare	1	$24
Mimedx Group, Inc.	1	$17

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