Has Richard Hinton received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,098 in general payments to Richard Hinton across 235 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Richard Hinton did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Richard Hinton come from?

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.

Richard Hinton

Neurology · Dallas, TXNPI 1194821942

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 98.2% of the total across 235 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 43 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 25.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $2,069 and has fallen 93.3% since, to $139 in 2025.

$4,098in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 235 payments — averaging $17.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
UCB, Inc.$264
Genentech USA, Inc.$224
Novartis$191
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.$159
AstraZeneca$150
plus $2K from 37 others

What the payments were for

Speaking & faculty fees$241%
Food & beverage$4,02598%
Education$481%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
AbbVie(2 entities)	67	$1,051
UCB, Inc.	10	$264
Genentech USA, Inc.	12	$224
Novartis	13	$191
Akcea Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$159
AstraZeneca	9	$150
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	10	$141
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	9	$137
Biogen	9	$131
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	8	$119
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$108
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	6	$103
Grifols USA, LLC	5	$100
Lilly USA, LLC	8	$98
CSL Behring	4	$83
Pfizer	5	$83
Amgen	4	$76
EMD Serono, Inc.	5	$68
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	3	$67
Lundbeck LLC	4	$65
Sanofi	3	$65
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	1	$49
Genentech, Inc.	1	$48
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$46
MDD US Operations, LLC	3	$44
Eisai Inc.	2	$42
Merz North America, Inc.	1	$36
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$34
GE HealthCare	3	$27
Greenwich Biosciences, Inc.	1	$25
Acorda Therapeutics, Inc	1	$24
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$24
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$21
ANI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$18
Itamar Medical Inc	1	$17
Johnson & Johnson	1	$15
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	1	$13
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$13
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$12
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

TEGSEDI$109

How this compares

$4,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 1,246 neurology providers in Texas.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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