Question 1

Has Stephanie Rodriguez received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $159,316 in general payments to Stephanie Rodriguez across 691 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 Stephanie Rodriguez 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 Stephanie Rodriguez 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
AbbVie	187	$145,655
Novo Nordisk	93	$2,455
Corcept Therapeutics	58	$1,661
Lilly USA, LLC	60	$1,421
Medtronic	6	$734
Nevro Corp.	13	$696
Boehringer Ingelheim	35	$652
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	31	$570
Amgen	23	$566
Novartis	19	$542
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	10	$441
Dexcom, Inc.	19	$428
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	9	$412
Bayer	18	$380
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	11	$295
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	9	$251
Antares Pharma, Inc.	13	$245
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	12	$220
Abbott	12	$210
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$125
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$125
Merck	6	$108
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	6	$101
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	3	$86
GSK	2	$83
Insulet Corporation	4	$76
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$71
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc	2	$67
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$64
IBSA Pharma Inc.	3	$57
Terumo Medical Corporation	1	$56
Cardiovascular Systems Inc.	1	$54
Boston Scientific	2	$53
Ascensia Diabetes Care US Inc.	2	$52
Averitas Pharma Inc.	2	$48
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.	2	$47
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$38
BETA Bionics, Inc.	1	$34
Sequel Med Tech, LLC	2	$32
Chiesi USA, Inc.	1	$23
Halozyme Inc	1	$22
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$19
Pfizer	1	$18
Henry Schein, Inc.	1	$17
Cequr Corporation	1	$11

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