Question 1

Has Robert Pintauro received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $20,531 in general payments to Robert Pintauro across 701 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 Robert Pintauro 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 Robert Pintauro 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
Novo Nordisk	98	$3,166
AbbVie	135	$2,643
AstraZeneca	54	$1,856
Amgen	51	$1,341
GSK	24	$1,077
Lilly USA, LLC	39	$1,035
Bayer	25	$850
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	33	$826
Sanofi	18	$800
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	13	$629
Boehringer Ingelheim	25	$627
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	17	$625
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	16	$580
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$516
Pfizer	17	$427
Astellas Pharma US Inc	9	$347
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	10	$319
Intra-sana Laboratories	9	$290
Lundbeck LLC	14	$244
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$241
Merck	5	$202
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	11	$200
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$183
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	7	$160
Cagent Vascular Inc	2	$131
Stryker	1	$131
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	2	$129
Exact Sciences	4	$108
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	4	$91
Ardelyx, Inc.	3	$82
Abbott	3	$72
BD	3	$71
Eisai Inc.	4	$71
Gilead	3	$62
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	4	$58
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$50
IBSA Pharma Inc.	2	$48
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$43
Novartis	2	$39
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$36
Johnson & Johnson	1	$25
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$24
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$21
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$21
Dexcom, Inc.	1	$20
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	1	$15

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