Question 1

Has Stephen Pearce received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,287 in general payments to Stephen Pearce across 89 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 Stephen Pearce 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 Stephen Pearce 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
Encore Medical, LP	24	$3,569
Anika Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$729
Stryker	4	$187
Pacira Therapeutics, Inc.	25	$145
Onkos Surgical, Inc.	2	$129
Exactech, Inc.	1	$89
DJO, LLC	2	$54
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	2	$52
Heraeus Medical, LLC.	2	$48
Orthofix Medical, Inc.	11	$45
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	2	$40
Johnson & Johnson	2	$26
Bioventus LLC	1	$25
Kerecis Limited	1	$24
Terumo BCT, Inc.	1	$19
Amgen	1	$18
Innovation Technologies Inc	1	$16
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$16
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$16
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Fidia Pharma USA Inc.	2	$14
Arteriocyte Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$11

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