Question 1

Has William Aderhold received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $33,286 in general payments to William Aderhold across 658 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 William Aderhold 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 William Aderhold 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
AbbVie(2 entities)	145	$12,200
Amgen	49	$9,755
Novo Nordisk	105	$3,436
Lilly USA, LLC	52	$1,198
AstraZeneca	33	$849
Bayer	21	$704
GSK	27	$599
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	22	$596
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	21	$516
Boehringer Ingelheim	19	$400
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	21	$389
Merck	20	$341
Novartis	20	$328
Johnson & Johnson	18	$257
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	6	$186
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	11	$182
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	2	$156
Pfizer	7	$113
Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc.	1	$103
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	7	$100
Biogen	5	$83
Dexcom, Inc.	5	$75
UCB, Inc.	3	$74
Exact Sciences	4	$72
Corium, LLC	3	$65
Mylan Specialty L.p.	4	$60
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$56
Alkermes, Inc.	3	$54
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$47
Lundbeck LLC	2	$44
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$38
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	2	$31
Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc	2	$29
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.	2	$28
Eisai Inc.	2	$24
Almatica Pharma LLC	1	$23
Aprecia Pharmaceuticals, LLC	1	$23
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$16
Insulet Corporation	1	$14
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$12
Medtronic	1	$11

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