Taylor Starks
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Payments from drug & device makers
Across 212 payments — averaging $14.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$515
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$467
- EMD Serono, Inc.$158
- SK Life Science, Inc.$143
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$139
- Biogen$134
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,95598%
- Education$632%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 53 | $515 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 70 | $467 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 3 | $158 |
| SK Life Science, Inc. | 3 | $143 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $139 |
| Biogen | 6 | $134 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $123 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 7 | $117 |
| AbbVie | 5 | $106 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 6 | $103 |
| Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $96 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $94 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $62 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 3 | $61 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $60 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 3 | $55 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $36 |
| Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $34 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 2 | $31 |
| Novartis | 2 | $27 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Banner Life Sciences, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $18 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $15 |
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.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.