Has Virginia Maher Wiese, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,336 in general payments to Virginia Maher Wiese, MD across 223 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 Virginia Maher Wiese, 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 Virginia Maher Wiese, 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.

Virginia Maher Wiese, MD

Dermatology · Essex, CTNPI 1396700217

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,336in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 223 payments — averaging $19.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Johnson & Johnson$512
Pfizer$343
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$230
Merz North America, Inc.$196
UCB, Inc.$192
plus $2K from 23 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,89190%
Education$44510%

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
AbbVie(2 entities)	106	$1,337
Johnson & Johnson	18	$512
Pfizer	15	$343
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	9	$230
Merz North America, Inc.	3	$196
UCB, Inc.	3	$192
Lilly USA, LLC	9	$181
LEO Pharma Inc.	8	$170
Sanofi	5	$156
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	5	$150
Galderma Laboratories, L.p.	6	$109
Novartis	2	$94
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	4	$74
VYNE Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$69
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$67
Almirall LLC	3	$56
Revance Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$55
Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC	3	$49
Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc.	2	$42
Bristol Myers Squibb	2	$41
Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.	2	$39
Incyte Corporation	2	$39
Amgen	2	$32
Organon	1	$20
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$18
Strata Skin Sciences, Inc.	2	$18
Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$17
Mission Pharmacal Company	1	$16
Journey Medical Corporation	1	$13

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.

Humira$125
Bimzelx$118

How this compares

$4,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 222 dermatology providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$253,639

Medicare patients

562

Services billed

8,844

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
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab	24	$163,314
Metronidazole	66	$3,487
Clobetasol Propionate	126	$3,200
Fluticasone Propionate	160	$2,864
Doxycycline Hyclate	118	$2,797
Ketoconazole	111	$2,255
Tacrolimus	20	$2,205
Ivermectin	12	$2,102
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	75	$1,388
Econazole Nitrate	59	$1,387
Minoxidil	115	$1,225
Fluorouracil	18	$1,004
Triamcinolone Acetonide	84	$909
Mupirocin	89	$520
Alclometasone Dipropionate	32	$515

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other dermatology in Essex

Brett KingFairfield$6.1M
Michael PayetteCromwell$3.4M
Bruce StroberCromwell$3.3M
Lisa DonofrioNew Haven$2.3M
Mona ShahriariCromwell$2.3M
Jeremy MossMadison$2.2M
Brittany CraiglowFairfield$1.9M
Meagen McCuskerEnfield$1.8M
Christopher BunickNew Haven$1.7M
Jun LuFarmington$1.5M

See the full list for Connecticut →

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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