So any doctors in the house that can shed light on this or tell me if I'm reading this wrong would be greatly appreciated. I'm just seeing what I am seeing and while I can think of reasons the below might not be the case, they don't make as much since as what it seems to be.

I found out yesterday my doctor's office is closing at the end of February. Three doctors, all of them relatively young (40s or so). So it was very odd. I could see one doctor retiring, but all three closing shop was strange. The notice they sent out said they would help us find new physicians. So they aren't selling the practice either? Wouldn't an established location with a full book of patients be worth a goldmine to someone? So that became even odder and made it seem like something happened that forced them to close. I started researching and went to the Open Payments Data for the government.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/

Now, if you search what I would assume is most doctors you will see they have gotten general payments for maybe a couple $1,000s. Food and Beverage. So drug companies have taken them to lunch over the year. Sounds pretty standard and expected. I then looked up the doctors in the practice and two of them had millions in associated research funding. One for about $3.8 mil and on for about $1.3 mil. My doctor had 62,456 payments and 62,454 were from Moderna. So he had never done any research before 2020 for his prior 11 years in the business. Now all the sudden he is getting $3.8 million in funds? And the stranger part is it is a sport medicine clinic that does family medicine too. So not your normal type of clinic that Moderna would reach out to if they wanted to run a trial. So I notice in the details of the payments that the payments are going to Synexus Clinic. I look them up and find this page:

https://www.synexusclinic.com/professional-partnering/how-we-work/

Basically, they develop a trial, and they advertise it to their doctor partners (my doctor, for example) He send over names of possible fits for the trial, Synexus sends the patient a letter, and the patient responds to Synexus if they are interested. Then doc gets paid for the time spent referring the patient.

So they’re telling me that he found 62,454 patients that want to be in a Covid 19 vaccine trial??? That’s a pretty good conversion rate! I’ve seen news articles about various trials for the shots, and I don’t think I’ve seen a total of 62,000 patients in trials period, let alone coming from one doctor’s office in my city. In fact, that accounts for about 10% of the entire city population. Do these people even know they are in a "trail?" I could have been a candidate for a trail (not that I ever would have done it) but I never got an offer letter. How does one doctor earn $3.8 million in referral fees?

Here is the Moderna entry in the database showing the payments they have made.

https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/company/100000961851

So it appears Moderna uses the trial company to send money to doctors that do their bidding? What I can't figure out is where the rest of the money comes from. What he received was 5% of the money Moderna paid out. We know Moderna greased a whole lot more palms than just that. I thought maybe he is an owner somehow of Synexus and is getting credited with funds that actually went to other doctors, but I searched the corporation in my state and it was registered but I didn't see his name anywhere. Regardless, something really odd is going on. There may be an explanation, or not. In the last two years I've certainly learned if there is something that seems suspicious, odds are magnificent that it is.

Any insight anyone could add would be appreciated!

EDIT -

I searched around some more this morning. I searched the web for the study name that some of the doctors were paid on.
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=AJOqlzX2zoJPYS7m_bH9yrYyAeo9Y29gAg:1674838167861&q=A+Phase+3,+Randomized,+Stratified,+Observer-Blind,+Placebo-Controlled+Study+to+Evaluate+the+Efficacy,+Safety,+and+Immunogenicity+of+mRNA-1273+SARS-CoV-2+Vaccine+in+Adults+Aged+18+Years+and+Older+%22Vachris%22&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHvbSwmuj8AhUVlWoFHdezCxwQ5t4CegQIHBAB&biw=1920&bih=969&dpr=1 There is a paper on it, but it is only posted a European research site, and a Danish site for Google. I did follow a link to get to the paper on the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1056/NEJMoa2035389/suppl_file/nejmoa2035389_appendix.pdf

The five doctors in my comment below are on there, but not sure why they are listed together in the payment listings and allll the other doctors aren't. I did find they were tied to other research facility names, and sometime had an office in the same building, or the research clinic was their main practice. There are a bunch of other names on the write up, so maybe the doctor is getting the funds in their names and paying all the support staff? But there are 100 study groups listed, and 30,000 participants in the trial, which means each one is handling 300 people. Does it cost that much money to run a trial for 300 people? It is still really suspicious, and then you get into why the clinic is shutting down so suddenly. And it seems to be a big conflict of interest when you are getting paid by Moderna to run a trial for them in one office, and then pushing the vax to your patients next door.

So while it makes a little more sense, it all seems really fishy at best, and ethical issues or fraud at worse. I'll probably still reach out to PV and see if they think something is there. And maybe one of y'all will find something that pushes us one way or the other.