Manufacturer or GPO Program year 2025 Source: CMS Open Payments

Cerus Corporation

CA, United States

CMS manufacturer 100000136504

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General payments

$1,818,700

1,501 payments

Research payments

$17,525,746

825 payments

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Cerus Corporation reported paying $1,818,700 in general payments and $17,525,746 in research payments to U.S. physicians, teaching hospitals and other recipients.

No combined total These are different kinds of money, reported under different rules. A meal and a clinical trial grant do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

By program year

14 rows
Year Kind Amount Payments
2025 General $714,176 423
2025 Research $1,988,075 77
2024 General $405,694 372
2024 Research $2,222,863 91
2023 General $331,076 387
2023 Research $3,228,336 123
2022 General $146,590 84
2022 Research $2,524,890 107
2021 General $87,786 45
2021 Research $2,863,637 138
2020 General $12,489 14
2020 Research $1,900,519 128
2019 General $120,889 176
2019 Research $2,797,425 161

Breakdown

Top recipients General payments · program year 2025
  1. Laurence Corash Internal Medicine · San Francisco, CA $335,526 39 payments
  2. Philip Spinella Pediatric Critical Care Medicine · Saint Louis, MO $120,473 25 payments
  3. Hua Shan Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology · Stanford, CA $56,620 10 payments
  4. Bryan Cotton Trauma Surgery · Nashville, TN $18,045 16 payments
  5. Majed Refaai Clinical Pathology · Rochester, NY $16,595 7 payments
  6. Scott Lemaire Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) · Houston, TX $16,452 7 payments
  7. Melissa Cushing Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine · New York, NY $11,276 12 payments
  8. James Zimring Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine · Atlanta, GA $11,107 8 payments
  9. Thorsten Haas Anesthesiology · Gainesville, FL $11,092 7 payments
  10. Lucy Kornblith Surgery · San Francisco, CA $11,020 6 payments
Top research recipients Research payments · program year 2025
  1. Bloodworks Northwest $848,099 1 payment
  2. Emory University Hospital Teaching hospital · GA $454,892 20 payments
  3. University Of Washington Med Ctr Teaching hospital · WA $342,900 18 payments
  4. Baylor College Of Medicine $81,168 8 payments
  5. Texas Southwestern Medical Center $69,918 6 payments
  6. Phoenix Childrens Hospital Teaching hospital · AZ $41,425 7 payments
  7. University of Maryland Baltimore $31,112 1 payment
  8. Mayo Clinic Jacksonville $28,767 2 payments
  9. Vanderbilt University Medical $20,139 1 payment
  10. St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc $16,337 2 payments
Products the payments named General payments · program year 2025
  1. Intercept Blood System for Platelets Device-Transfusion $714,176 100% · 175 recipients

Each share is of this company’s general payments naming a product in 2025. A payment can name up to five products, so these amounts overlap.

Specialties paid General payments · program year 2025
  1. Internal Medicine $335,742 47% · 7 practitioners
  2. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Pediatrics $120,473 17% · 1 practitioner
  3. Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology Pathology $72,793 10% · 15 practitioners
  4. Anesthesiology $35,620 5% · 59 practitioners
  5. Clinical Pathology/Laboratory Medicine Pathology $25,838 4% · 7 practitioners

The top 5 of 23 specialties; each share is of this company’s general payments to practitioners with a specialty in 2025. Each practitioner is counted under their primary specialty.

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Where the money went General payments · program year 2025
  1. California $409,723 57% · 9 recipients
  2. Missouri $131,748 18% · 3 recipients
  3. New York $32,684 5% · 9 recipients
  4. Tennessee $30,394 4% · 7 recipients
  5. Texas $26,881 4% · 9 recipients

The top 5 of 26 states; each share is of this company’s general payments in 2025 where a state was reported.

The top 25 states, free in the app

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Consulting Fee $1,276,897 176 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $274,890 209 payments
  3. Honoraria $160,874 88 payments
  4. Food and Beverage $96,508 975 payments
  5. Gift $9,180 40 payments
  6. Entertainment $351 13 payments
1,501 general · 825 research

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Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

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