Question 1

Has Sarah Alvarez received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $7,265 in general payments to Sarah Alvarez across 84 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 Sarah Alvarez 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 Sarah Alvarez 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
Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$5,986
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	10	$174
Corium, LLC	9	$144
Pfizer	8	$121
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$95
Tris Pharma Inc	6	$92
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$87
Neos Therapeutics, LP	5	$78
GSK	5	$77
Sobi, Inc	3	$73
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	4	$63
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$34
AbbVie	2	$32
Shire North American Group Inc	2	$28
Merck	2	$26
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$25
Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$25
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	1	$24
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	1	$18
Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	1	$16
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$15
AstraZeneca	1	$14

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