Has William Adams received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $5,758 in general payments to William Adams across 125 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 William Adams 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 William Adams 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.

William Adams

General Practice · Richmond, VANPI 1821163536

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (54.3%), travel and lodging and gifts — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 22 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimvie Inc. at 54.6% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $2,609 and has fallen 86.4% since, to $356 in 2025. Among general practice clinicians in VA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,758in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 125 payments — averaging $46.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Zimvie Inc.$3K
Dentsply Sirona Inc$773
Ultradent Products Inc$671
Align Technology, Inc.$426
Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.$109
Kerr Corporation$103
plus $533 from 16 others

$20in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $20.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

Align Technology, Inc.$20

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,35324%
Food & beverage$3,12554%
Education$4999%
Gifts$78114%

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
Zimvie Inc.	56	$3,142
Dentsply Sirona Inc	18	$773
Ultradent Products Inc	6	$671
Align Technology, Inc.	14	$426
Ivoclar Vivadent, Inc.	1	$109
Kerr Corporation	2	$103
Nobel Biocare USA	6	$91
3M Company	6	$91
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	1	$55
Straumann USA LLC	1	$43
Zimmer Biomet	1	$39
Biohorizons Implant Systems Inc.	2	$29
Kulzer, LLC	2	$29
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$22
Salvin Dental Specialties, Inc.	1	$22
VOCO America Inc.	1	$19
Ortho Organizers, Inc.	1	$18
Geistlich Pharma, North America, Inc.	1	$17
Henry Schein, Inc.	1	$17
Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$15
Philips North America LLC	1	$13
Patterson Companies, Inc.	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.

How this compares

$5,758 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,591 general practice providers in Virginia.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Penicillin V Potassium	59	$243
Clindamycin Hcl	14	$181
Amoxicillin	32	$88
Azithromycin	16	$76

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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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