Andrea Sestak
Pediatric Rheumatology · Oklahoma City, OKNPI 1700113289
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 65 payments — averaging $21.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$187
- Novartis$132
- AstraZeneca$106
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$79
- Amgen$63
- Grifols USA, LLC$62
- plus $751 from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,36799%
- Education$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 6 | $187 |
| Novartis | 7 | $132 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 5 | $106 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $79 |
| Amgen | 3 | $63 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 3 | $62 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $59 |
| Sandoz | 2 | $55 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| UCB, Inc. | 2 | $49 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Octapharma USA, Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Optinose US, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $42 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $40 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 2 | $39 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $33 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $22 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $18 |
| ADMA Biomanufacturing LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $15 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
- BENLYSTA$115
How this compares
Too few pediatric rheumatology providers in Oklahomato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.