Question 1

Has Richard Petty received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,850,710 in general payments to Richard Petty across 3,105 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 Petty 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 Petty 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
AbbVie(2 entities)	974	$969,415
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	519	$520,459
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	595	$500,496
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	555	$470,504
Alkermes, Inc.	183	$177,975
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	171	$156,611
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	52	$28,432
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	43	$23,788
Johnson & Johnson	12	$3,007
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$22

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