Question 1

Has Syed Karim received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,169 in general payments to Syed Karim across 1,064 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 Syed Karim 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 Syed Karim 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)	183	$2,869
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	158	$2,208
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	103	$1,448
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	76	$1,323
Tris Pharma Inc	35	$1,151
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	89	$1,106
Johnson & Johnson	43	$829
Lundbeck LLC	57	$737
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	44	$717
Alkermes, Inc.	25	$621
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	40	$579
Corium, LLC	30	$517
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	24	$435
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	23	$387
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	19	$339
Neos Therapeutics, LP	23	$339
Noven Therapeutics, LLC	17	$283
Bausch Health US, LLC	8	$147
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$136
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	9	$135
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	8	$135
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	7	$130
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	6	$94
Almatica Pharma LLC	4	$58
Indivior Inc.	3	$56
Shire North American Group Inc	3	$48
Tempus AI, Inc	2	$47
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	3	$45
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$41
Merck	2	$33
Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.	1	$30
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$30
Genentech USA, Inc.	1	$22
Tonix Medicines, Inc.	1	$22
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	1	$20
Biogen	1	$20
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$17
Adlon Therapeutics L.p.	1	$15

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