Drug Obesity

Saxenda

Payments companies reported to CMS as associated with Saxenda. "Associated with" is CMS's wording: it links a payment to a product without saying the money was spent on it.

$480Kassociated payments (2023-2025)
7,995clinicians with associated payments
2companies reporting

By year

2023 $144K
2024 $141K
2025 $195K

Payments reported as associated with Saxenda, per program year, as reported to CMS.

Who makes it

Specialties most often involved

Cardiovascular Disease $125K
Family Medicine $60K
Family $53K
Internal Medicine $42K
Interventional Cardiology $24K
Physician Assistant $22K

Where the associated payments went, by the receiving clinician's specialty.

Clinicians most associated with Saxenda

These are the largest totals companies reported as associated with Saxenda. They are typically speaking or consulting arrangements, which companies must report by law; appearing here is not evidence of anything improper.

ClinicianLocationSpecialtyAssociated payments (2023-2025)
Pam Taub La Jolla, CA Cardiovascular Disease $62,157.52
Carlos Mena-Hurtado New Haven, CT Cardiovascular Disease $36,110.00
Francisco Lopez-Jimenez Rochester, MN Cardiovascular Disease $25,905.00
Michael Nanna New Haven, CT Interventional Cardiology $23,550.00
Claudia Fox Minneapolis, MN Pediatrics $16,467.39
Angela Fitch Boston, MA Obesity Medicine (Internal Medicine) $13,489.76
Wajahat Mehal West Haven, CT Gastroenterology (Internal Medicine) $13,067.96
Holly Lofton New York, NY Obesity Medicine (Preventive Medicine) $12,513.83
Michael Kobernick Warren, MI Emergency Medicine $8,988.48
Sara Tabtabai Hartford, CT Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology $5,887.50

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Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026). Drug and device detail covers 2023-2025.