Question 1

Has Shane Dignan received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $22,681 in general payments to Shane Dignan across 1,294 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 Shane Dignan 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 Shane Dignan 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
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	137	$2,690
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	93	$1,955
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	109	$1,906
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)	138	$1,832
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	93	$1,561
Corium, LLC	75	$1,557
AbbVie	63	$1,535
Alkermes, Inc.	51	$1,052
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	40	$987
Tris Pharma Inc	63	$888
Lundbeck LLC	64	$865
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	33	$636
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	39	$559
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	37	$467
Almatica Pharma LLC	25	$462
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	29	$452
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	26	$343
Validus Pharmaceuticals LLC	15	$313
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	16	$306
Bausch Health US, LLC	15	$301
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	24	$297
Sage Therapeutics, LLC	18	$294
Indivior Inc.	18	$273
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	23	$223
Luye Pharma (USA) Ltd.	10	$144
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$113
Neos Therapeutics, LP	5	$89
Lilly USA, LLC	4	$79
Novo Nordisk	4	$75
Brainsway USA Inc	1	$73
OWP Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$69
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	3	$61
Eisai Inc.	3	$59
Merck	3	$59
Bioxcel Therapeutics, Inc.	3	$57
Neuronetics, Inc.	3	$32
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16

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