[amsilprotag]

Looking closer at the data, almost everyone is receiving small travel, lunch payments. Many of the higher earners are receiving large sums for "Promotional Speaker/Other", "Consulting Fee" or "Current or prospective ownership or investment interest".

Comparing 10 or so names in the source data with the Propublica data, often Propublica has identical amounts and trasactions as the Open data, a few times Propublica's dollar amounts and transactions are higher. This might be evidence to support arkades's claim, but I can't be sure since I don't know the exact methodology.

[yeahitslikethat]

They also get paid to speak about drugs. Thousands of dollars per lecture and interestingly the only people in attendance at said lectures are the physician and a drug rep and the venue is a restaurant.