Question 1

How much industry money does HOLZER receive?

Accepted Answer

Drug and device makers reported $21,413 in payments to HOLZER across 16 transactions under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. These are payments to the hospital as an institution — largely research funding, grants and device loans — and are counted separately from anything paid to an individual clinician.

Question 2

Does this money go to doctors at HOLZER?

Accepted Answer

No. The Sunshine Act reports payments to teaching hospitals separately from payments to physicians. Money reported here supports the institution; it is not compensation to any named clinician, and individual physicians are listed on their own profiles.

Question 3

Is a large total a sign of a problem?

Accepted Answer

No. Totals track research volume and institution size above all else. A large academic medical centre running many clinical trials will always report far more than a small community teaching hospital, which is simply what running trials looks like.

Stryker	$14,370
Linvatec Corporation	$2,065
Medtronic	$2,000
Biofire Diagnostics, LLC	$1,304
Organon	$700
Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.	$352
Abbott	$345
Concordance Healthcare Solutions, LLC	$150
GE HealthCare	$79
Medline Industries LP	$49

HOLZER

Who reported the payments