Question 1

Has Stacy Kowalczyk received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $10,433 in general payments to Stacy Kowalczyk across 662 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 Stacy Kowalczyk 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 Stacy Kowalczyk 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
Pfizer	72	$1,144
Novo Nordisk	75	$1,134
AbbVie	71	$1,088
AstraZeneca	58	$1,009
GSK	69	$807
Merck	40	$717
Boehringer Ingelheim	47	$593
Lilly USA, LLC	36	$527
Bayer	24	$369
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	18	$274
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	15	$253
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	12	$239
Novartis	13	$229
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	9	$199
Amgen	11	$198
Astellas Pharma US Inc	8	$177
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	9	$161
Exact Sciences	8	$161
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	8	$158
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	9	$142
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	8	$112
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	2	$110
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	6	$101
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$94
Johnson & Johnson	5	$69
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	3	$64
Viatris Specialty LLC	4	$63
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$33
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$33
Abbott	2	$23
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$22
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$19
Verona Pharma, Inc.	1	$17
Lundbeck LLC	1	$16
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	1	$15
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$14
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.	1	$14

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