How Cook Incorporated Pays Doctors
The largest category by dollar amount is royalty or license, accounting for $3.0M across 19 payments. Food and beverage payments are the most frequent: 52 meals averaging $68 each.
Royalty or License
19 payments, avg $155K
Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a v
235 payments, avg $4K
Consulting Fee
139 payments, avg $2K
Grant
53 payments, avg $4K
Travel and Lodging
250 payments, avg $444
Honoraria
38 payments, avg $528
Food and Beverage
52 payments, avg $68
Where the Money Goes
California received the most from Cook Incorporated: $1.8M across 48 doctors.
Showing top 15 states by total payment amount.
Which Specialties Does Cook Incorporated Target?
Surgery doctors received the most from Cook Incorporated: $1.7M across 23 providers.
Products Behind the Payments
These are the drugs and medical devices that Cook Incorporated promoted to healthcare providers through payments, meals, and consulting arrangements.
Top Recipients
These doctors received the most from Cook Incorporated. Click any name to view their full profile and see all their industry relationships.
Surgery · San Francisco, CA
Urology · Smithfield, NC
Interventional Cardiology · Columbus, OH
Diagnostic Radiology · Honolulu, HI
Urology · New York, NY
Gastroenterology · Burlington, MA
Foot Surgery · Livingston, NJ
Cardiovascular Disease · Bloomington, IN
Vascular Surgery · Stratford, CT
Anesthesiology · Madison, WI
Gastroenterology · Saint Louis, MO
Vascular Surgery · Hackensack, NJ
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Chicago, IL
Interventional Cardiology · Gainesville, FL
Vascular & Interventional Radiology · Chicago, IL
Frequently Asked Questions
How much has Cook Incorporated paid to doctors?
Cook Incorporated made 786 payments totaling $4.5M to 401 healthcare providers. The average payment was $6K and the largest single payment was $566K.
What types of payments does Cook Incorporated make?
Cook Incorporated's payments include royalty or license ($3.0M), compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a v ($931K), consulting fee ($262K). They provided 52 meals to doctors, averaging $68 per meal.
Which doctors receive the most from Cook Incorporated?
The top recipient is Timothy Chuter (Surgery), who received $1.7M across 4 payments.
Are these payments legal?
Yes. The Physician Payments Sunshine Act requires pharmaceutical and medical device companies to publicly report payments to physicians and teaching hospitals. These payments cover legitimate activities like consulting, research, education, and meals during educational presentations. The data is published through the CMS Open Payments program.
Where does this data come from?
This data comes from the CMS Open Payments program (openpaymentsdata.cms.gov), which collects and publishes information about payments from drug and device manufacturers to physicians and teaching hospitals. Companies are required by law to report these payments.
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Source: CMS Open Payments program. Data includes general and research payments to physicians and teaching hospitals.