Has Susan Cohen received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,187 in general payments to Susan Cohen across 80 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Susan Cohen did something wrong?

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.

Where does this information about Susan Cohen come from?

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.

Susan Cohen

Pediatrics · Asheville, NCNPI 1528092830

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,507 of the $2,187 with a category attached, or 68.9%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. at 31.1% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $921 and has fallen 71.2% since, to $265 in 2025. Among pediatrics clinicians in NC with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$2,187in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 80 payments — averaging $27.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.$680
GSK$268
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$183
Corium, LLC$180
Pfizer$177
Merck$139
plus $559 from 13 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$68031%
Food & beverage$1,50769%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

General payments by program year

Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

Company	Payments	Total
Recordati_rare_diseases_inc.	1	$680
GSK	8	$268
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$183
Corium, LLC	10	$180
Pfizer	11	$177
Merck	9	$139
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	5	$104
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$82
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	5	$78
Biogen	3	$49
Cranial Technologies, Inc	2	$44
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	2	$38
Philips North America LLC	2	$38
AstraZeneca	2	$34
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	2	$30
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc.	1	$20
Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p.	1	$15
Phadia US Inc.	1	$14
Kaleo, Inc.	1	$13

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

Sylvant$680
SHINGRIX$121

How this compares

$2,187 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,818 pediatrics providers in North Carolina.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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