Question 1

Has Richard Griffiths received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $925,004 in general payments to Richard Griffiths across 749 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 Griffiths 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 Griffiths 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
Kedplasma LLC	91	$346,292
CSL Behring	251	$311,438
CSL Plasma Inc.	193	$263,501
Novo Nordisk	49	$1,373
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	29	$366
Amgen	23	$335
AstraZeneca	11	$253
Abbott	15	$241
Insulet Corporation	17	$222
Johnson & Johnson	22	$196
Corcept Therapeutics	8	$185
Merck	13	$140
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$73
Valeritas, Inc.	4	$73
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$62
Lilly USA, LLC	5	$60
Medtronic	2	$41
Boehringer Ingelheim	2	$28
Pfizer	2	$26
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$20
AbbVie	1	$19
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$18
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$17
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$13
Lifescan, Inc.	1	$11

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