Question 1

Has Stephen Silberstein received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $717,622 in general payments to Stephen Silberstein across 530 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 Silberstein 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 Silberstein 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(2 entities)	159	$240,550
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	50	$120,870
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	66	$77,133
H. Lundbeck A S	19	$68,427
Amgen	36	$62,251
Lilly USA, LLC	79	$59,297
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	8	$24,613
Eli Lilly	11	$22,517
Biodelivery Sciences International, Inc.	10	$8,911
Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc.	23	$7,451
Lundbeck LLC	4	$7,125
Ipsen Pharma SAS	1	$4,260
Merck	7	$3,850
Ipsen Innovation	1	$3,510
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$2,400
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.	1	$1,500
Upjohn US 1 LLC	1	$1,000
Biogen	1	$836
Pfizer	8	$247
Novartis	15	$247
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	5	$86
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$80
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	5	$71
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	2	$53
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$52
GRT US Holding, Inc.	1	$50
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$47
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$35
Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc.	1	$27
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	2	$26
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.	1	$22
Eisai Inc.	1	$19
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$17
Promius Pharma LLC	1	$16
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$13
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$13

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