Question 1

Has Ukonu Ejie, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $258 in general payments to Ukonu Ejie, MD across 11 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 Ukonu Ejie, MD 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 Ukonu Ejie, MD 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
Insmed, Inc.	8	$128
Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$102
Johnson & Johnson	1	$28

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Daptomycin	148	$98,339
ZerbaxaCeftolozane/Tazobactam	11	$58,906
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium	28	$11,791
Cefepime Hcl	53	$9,658
Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam	39	$6,511
Meropenem	24	$6,306
CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium	61	$6,243
Rifabutin	21	$6,205
Cefpodoxime Proxetil	24	$2,664
Vancomycin Hcl	23	$2,644
Cefazolin Sodium	37	$2,427
Minocycline Hcl	82	$1,568
Linezolid	18	$1,253
Doxycycline Hyclate	50	$1,014
Azithromycin	41	$747

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