Brenda Worcester
Adult Health · Baltimore, MDNPI 1710364765
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 35 payments — averaging $104.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$290
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.$285
- Novo Nordisk$263
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$246
- Vertos Medical, Inc.$242
- Medtronic$239
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,666100%
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 | 3 | $290 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $285 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $263 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $246 |
| Vertos Medical, Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $239 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 2 | $226 |
| Gilead | 2 | $207 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $165 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 2 | $160 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $141 |
| Biotronik NRO, Inc. | 1 | $135 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $124 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $116 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $115 |
| Abiomed | 1 | $112 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $109 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $94 |
| Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc. | 1 | $92 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $89 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $89 |
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
$3,666 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 542 adult health providers in Maryland.
Other adult health in Baltimore
- Christopher RobersonBaltimore$180K
- Amit DhirBaltimore$97K
- Angie PriceBaltimore$96K
- Brendon BowerBaltimore$64K
- Caitlin NassBaltimore$46K
- Sarah RileyBaltimore$24K
- Monica LovinsBaltimore$18K
- Elizabeth ChandlerBaltimore$17K
- Clifton DawsonBaltimore$14K
- Selina YeasminBaltimore$8K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.