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Stop selling it true to declining sales. now wondering did it last 16 years on the market in part because bayer was paying doctors millions? a cnn analyst of a federal database shows from 2013 to 2017, bayer paid a total of $2.5 million to 11,850 u.s. physicians in connection with esure. >> that's a lot of money. for a device that has caused so much trouble. >> reporter: the payments for consulting and other services are legal. but many health professionals question whether they're ethical. dr. martin mckerry is professor of surgery at john hopkins medicine. >> that looks like a bribe. >> repo...

Bayer paid the doctor more than $168,000. the second highest amount paid out to doctors nationwide related to esure. basinsky was also paid from 2008 through 2012. the amount unknown because the federal database doesn't go back that far. potts and other patients we talked to say they feel that money influenced the doctor who promoted esure. >> the esure procedure is the most effective sterilization procedure available. >> they felt that more than $168,000 would influence someone. what do you think? >> i would say that i do not feel it is influenced me at all in any way. i think there can be pr...

All right, welcome back. an exclusive investigation by cnn. bayer, the pharmaceutical giant that makes the esure birth control device, has been paying doctors big money for consulting fees and other services. this comes after new questions about esure's safety. cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has the latest. >> reporter: after giving birth to four children. she says her doctor suggested esure, a device implanted into fallopian tubes. >> made my life horrible. >> reporter: in so much pain, she had an hiss rekt mi to get rid of esure. bayer says it is safe but will

Don't give you anything for their birth control products, you treat them exactly the same? >> i feel i do, yeah, i do feel i do. she says it didn't sway her. >> that's a lot of money to say it didn't sway you. >> reporter: other patients cnn spoke to defended dr. basinsky's judgment. the doctor said she's sad esure is coming off the market. >> i think it is a safe and viable option for women. >> reporter: potts says she'll be glad when esure is gone and out of the hands of doctors. elizabeth cohen, cnn, petersburg, indiana. coming up, the former archbishop of washington resigns over allegati...