Has Whitney Cline received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,346 in general payments to Whitney Cline across 66 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 Whitney Cline 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 Whitney Cline 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.

Whitney Cline

Pediatrics · Osage Beach, MONPI 1275670101

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 66 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 31 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.8% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $422, 2.4 times the $179 reported in 2019.

$1,346in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 66 payments — averaging $20.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Dexcom, Inc.$185
Merck$130
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$106
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC$100
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$84
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$80
plus $661 from 25 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,346100%

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
Dexcom, Inc.	8	$185
Merck	7	$130
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	5	$106
Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC	1	$100
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.	4	$84
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$80
Sobi, Inc	2	$51
Novo Nordisk	3	$49
Pfizer	3	$48
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$45
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$42
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	2	$37
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$33
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	2	$31
Amgen	1	$30
AstraZeneca	2	$30
Exact Sciences	2	$26
Organon	2	$24
AbbVie	1	$20
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	1	$18
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$17
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$17
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$17
Lundbeck LLC	1	$17
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$17
Alkermes, Inc.	1	$16
GSK	1	$14
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$13
Johnson & Johnson	1	$13

How this compares

$1,346 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,306 pediatrics providers in Missouri.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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