Apeksha Kishore
Physician Assistant · Chicago, ILNPI 1871238410
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 86 payments — averaging $23.09 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$340
- AbbVie$271
- Viiv Healthcare Company$233
- Pfizer$203
- Exact Sciences$151
- Tris Pharma Inc$137
- plus $650 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,95398%
- Education$322%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $340 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $271 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 6 | $233 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $203 |
| Exact Sciences | 6 | $151 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 7 | $137 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 6 | $97 |
| Corium, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Bayer | 3 | $77 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $39 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Amgen | 1 | $23 |
| Gilead | 1 | $22 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $22 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $21 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Organon | 1 | $13 |
| Itamar Medical Inc | 1 | $10 |
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
$1,986 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,912 physician assistant providers in Illinois.
Other physician assistant in Chicago
- Andrew MastroChicago$419K
- Renata BlockChicago$103K
- Margaret RomanoChicago$82K
- Christina StarksChicago$77K
- Jessica KarlChicago$71K
- Kelly OconnorChicago$36K
- Christa CooperChicago$36K
- Audrey FenwickChicago$29K
- Amy LadewskiChicago$29K
- Lindsey KalhagenChicago$21K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.