Question 1

Has Vicki Kalen received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,639,656 in general payments to Vicki Kalen across 736 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 Vicki Kalen 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 Vicki Kalen 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
Modernatx, Inc.	213	$3,518,564
AbbVie	62	$599,017
Kowa Research Institute, Inc.	34	$148,865
Novartis	9	$115,482
Sanofi US Services Inc.	23	$76,635
Novo Nordisk AS	342	$52,060
AstraZeneca	8	$38,798
Pfizer	14	$37,047
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	6	$20,436
Amgen(2 entities)	5	$11,768
Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	11	$10,888
Abbott	1	$8,000
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	1	$1,585
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$112
Stryker	1	$110
Nalu Medical, Inc.	1	$105
Silk Road Medical, Inc.	1	$87
Integra Lifesciences Corporation	1	$50
Secura Bio, Inc.	1	$28
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$20

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