In that timeframe, $9.15 billion in disclosed payments were made to 904,922 physicians, 1,216 teaching hospitals and 2,005 companies.
Here is a breakdown of the top five companies paying physicians, hospitals and other organizations:
1. Genetech
- Total number of payments made: 15,494 totalling $1.08 billion
- Total number of physicians receiving payments: 4,822
- Top paid products:
- Rituxan ($180 million)
- Herceptin ($116 million)
- Avastin ($115 million)
- Top paid teaching hospitals:
- Durante, Calif.-based City of Hope National Medical Center ($1.01 billion)
- Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center ($1.45 million)
- Denver-based National Jewish Health ($1.72 million)
2.Zimmer Biomet Holdings
- Total number of payments made: 197,671 totalling $306 million
- Total number of physicians receiving payments: 46,889
- Top paid products:
- Hips ($87.9 million)
- Knees ($48.4 million)
- Product portfolio ($29.6 million)
- Top paid teaching hospitals:
- Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital ($66 million)
- Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic Hospital ($843,000)
- Florence, S.C.-based McLeod Regional Medical Center ($439,000)
3. Depuy Synthes Products
- Total number of payments made: 6,989 totalling $238 million
- Total number of physicians receiving payments: 619
- Top paid products:
- Orthopedics ($51.6 million)
- Orthopaedics ($41.2 million)
- Spine ($31.9 million)
- Top paid teaching hospitals:
- New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery ($73,125)
- Seattle-based Harborview Medical Center ($69,540)
- University of Rochester (N.Y.) ($59,250)
4. Stryker Corp.
- Total number of payments made: 297,124 totalling $217 million
- Total number of physicians receiving payments: 39,140
- Top paid products:
- Knees ($64.1 million)
- Hips ($60.9 million)
- Triathlon ($22.9 million)
- Top paid teaching hospitals:
- Durham, N.C.-based Duke University Hospital ($760 million)
- Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital ($6.36 million)
- Columbia-based University of Missouri Health Care ($423,000)
5. Astrazeneca Pharmaceuticals
- Total number of payments made: 2.579 million totalling $189 million
- Total number of physicians receiving payments: 177,263
- Top paid products:
- Bydureon ($46.9 million)
- Brilinta ($39.2 million)
- Symbicort ($22.4 million)
- Top paid teaching hospitals:
- Denver-based National Jewish Health ($549,000)
- Bronx, N.Y.-based Montefiore Medical Center ($391,000)
- Ann Arbor-based University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers ($353,000)
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