Question 1

How much industry money does KENNEDY KRIEGER receive?

Accepted Answer

Drug and device makers reported $173,659 in payments to KENNEDY KRIEGER across 18 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 KENNEDY KRIEGER?

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.

Philips North America LLC	$123,853
Lundbeck LLC	$28,760
H. Lundbeck A S	$9,969
Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	$9,877
AbbVie	$1,200

KENNEDY KRIEGER

Who reported the payments