Question 1

Has Walter Bruning received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $21,535 in general payments to Walter Bruning across 659 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 Walter Bruning 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 Walter Bruning 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
AstraZeneca	57	$2,369
Amgen	71	$1,742
AbbVie(2 entities)	55	$1,665
GSK	52	$1,605
Johnson & Johnson	42	$1,448
Novartis	24	$1,336
Novo Nordisk	37	$1,255
Boehringer Ingelheim	50	$1,132
Pfizer	62	$1,021
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	17	$664
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	23	$592
Lilly USA, LLC	24	$527
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	5	$497
Merck	26	$380
Medtronic	3	$336
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	6	$334
Organogenesis Inc.	3	$330
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	4	$324
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$317
Exact Sciences	14	$254
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$247
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$242
Boston Scientific	2	$231
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	6	$200
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	5	$184
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	5	$177
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$148
Clarus Therapeutics Inc.	4	$141
Lucid Diagnostics Inc.	2	$136
Bayer	8	$132
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	1	$126
Tris Pharma Inc	1	$125
Stryker	1	$125
Optinose US, Inc.	1	$124
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$116
Vifor Pharma, Inc.	1	$112
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$110
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$105
Mylan Specialty L.p.	1	$98
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	7	$97
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$85
Astellas Pharma US Inc	5	$78
Eisai Inc.	6	$76
Abbott	3	$53
Vivus LLC	2	$30
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$30
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$16
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$13
IBSA Pharma Inc.	1	$13
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$12
Flowonix Medical Incorporated	1	$12

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