Question 1

Has Steven Potkin received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $203,479 in general payments to Steven Potkin across 205 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 Steven Potkin 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 Steven Potkin 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
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	102	$85,505
Eisai Inc.	2	$50,000
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	80	$45,684
Genentech USA, Inc.	7	$7,726
Alkermes, Inc.	3	$7,610
H. Lundbeck A S	3	$3,513
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	6	$2,665
Johnson & Johnson	2	$775

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