Question 1

Has Rodney Slone received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,903 in general payments to Rodney Slone across 145 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 Rodney Slone 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 Rodney Slone 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
AstraZeneca	23	$371
Johnson & Johnson	15	$237
Pfizer	18	$212
Amgen	15	$197
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	16	$196
Boehringer Ingelheim	13	$157
Lilly USA, LLC	14	$130
Merck	12	$120
AbbVie	4	$59
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	4	$57
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$38
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$36
Novartis	2	$28
GSK	2	$27
Novo Nordisk	2	$24
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$12

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