Question 1

Has William Ford, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $35,333 in general payments to William Ford, MD across 89 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 Ford, MD 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 Ford, MD 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
Johnson & Johnson	27	$27,304
AstraZeneca	5	$4,141
Novo Nordisk	2	$2,413
Novartis	16	$297
Indivior Inc.	4	$262
Pfizer	12	$206
AbbVie(2 entities)	2	$134
Boehringer Ingelheim	5	$98
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.	2	$91
Vertex	1	$78
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$61
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals	1	$50
La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company	2	$49
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	2	$33
Smith+Nephew	2	$29
Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc.	1	$25
Philips North America LLC	1	$23
Amgen	1	$21
Bayer	1	$17

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