Question 1

How much industry money does MEMORIALCARE MCWHLB receive?

Accepted Answer

Drug and device makers reported $277,902 in payments to MEMORIALCARE MCWHLB across 48 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 MEMORIALCARE MCWHLB?

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.

Vertex	$177,624
Merck	$38,895
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	$16,000
ZOLL Circulation Inc	$15,450
Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC	$14,240
Amgen	$10,620
Incyte Corporation	$4,236
Hollister Incorporated	$600
Stryker	$205
Saol Therapeutics Inc.	$30

MEMORIALCARE MCWHLB

Who reported the payments