Has Utkucan Acar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,199 in general payments to Utkucan Acar, MD across 18 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 Utkucan Acar, MD 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 Utkucan Acar, MD 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.

Utkucan Acar, MD

Allergy & Immunology · East Grand Forks, MNNPI 1609397421

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 18 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 33.3% of the total.

$1,199in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $66.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Amgen$399
AstraZeneca$287
Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC$224
Sanofi$133
Incyte Corporation$58
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$50
plus $48 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,199100%

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
Amgen(2 entities)	6	$399
AstraZeneca	4	$287
Biocryst US Sales Co., LLC	2	$224
Sanofi	2	$133
Incyte Corporation	1	$58
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$50
ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc.	1	$30
CSL Behring	1	$18

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.

How this compares

$1,199 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 57 allergy & immunology providers in Minnesota.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$85,167

Medicare patients

Services billed

2,698

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab	13	$55,353
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter	19	$13,598
Epinephrine	12	$2,922
Azelastine Hcl	82	$2,085
Ipratropium Bromide	17	$714
Fluticasone Propionate	45	$643
Famotidine	24	$106

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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