Question 1

Has Walter Martinez received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,890,245 in general payments to Walter Martinez across 315 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 Martinez 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 Martinez 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
Biogen	19	$912,426
Genentech, Inc.	82	$550,459
Janssen Research & Development, LLC	23	$249,981
Eisai Inc.	6	$82,864
Eli Lilly	4	$79,383
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	6	$11,946
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	35	$489
UCB, Inc.	18	$386
Sanofi	15	$386
Lundbeck LLC	15	$295
AbbVie(2 entities)	12	$231
Almatica Pharma LLC	8	$201
EMD Serono, Inc.	12	$192
Neurelis, Inc.	10	$150
Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	7	$96
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$72
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC	3	$63
MDD US Operations, LLC	3	$61
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	3	$45
Assertio Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$41
Amgen	3	$41
Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$40
Avion Pharmaceuticals	2	$35
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$33
Kvk-tech, Inc.	2	$32
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	2	$29
SK Life Science, Inc.	1	$24
Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$24
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$22
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$21
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$20
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	1	$18
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	1	$18
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	1	$16
GSK	1	$15
Johnson & Johnson	1	$14
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$14
Banner Life Sciences, LLC	1	$14
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.	1	$14
Tanabe Pharma America, Inc.	1	$12
Kyowa Kirin, Inc.	1	$12
Novartis	1	$11

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