Amara Unegbu-Ogbonna
Physician Assistant · Baltimore, MDNPI 1013674076
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 200 payments — averaging $17.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$264
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$249
- Merck$218
- Gilead$213
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$200
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,550100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 79 | $1,107 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $264 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $249 |
| Merck | 12 | $218 |
| Gilead | 9 | $213 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 17 | $200 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $177 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 8 | $163 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 9 | $158 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $152 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 5 | $120 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $106 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $92 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $46 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $18 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
How this compares
$3,550 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,567 physician assistant providers in Maryland.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 39 | $547 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $276 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Baltimore
- Kara CossisBaltimore$177K
- Melissa BearekmanBaltimore$81K
- Bruce SmithBaltimore$63K
- Shannon MarriottBaltimore$38K
- Praveena GadamBaltimore$24K
- James ShafferBaltimore$12K
- Joyce FreidlyBaltimore$10K
- Maria RosenbergBaltimore$10K
- Thomas PetryBaltimore$10K
- Margaret JoyceTowson$220K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.