Bruce Kiessling
Family Medicine · Anchorage, AKNPI 1386608156
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 287 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 30 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,397 and has fallen 98.5% since, to $20 in 2025. Among family medicine clinicians in AK with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 287 payments — averaging $17.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$973
- AstraZeneca$791
- GSK$462
- Novo Nordisk$350
- Lilly USA, LLC$237
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$218
- plus $2K from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,890100%
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(2 entities) | 44 | $973 |
| AstraZeneca | 41 | $791 |
| GSK | 33 | $462 |
| Novo Nordisk | 27 | $350 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $237 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $218 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 12 | $214 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 9 | $201 |
| Novartis | 12 | $181 |
| Merck | 12 | $158 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 9 | $137 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $134 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 9 | $129 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $115 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 4 | $82 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $78 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 4 | $78 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $63 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Alkermes, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $21 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $21 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Abbott | 1 | $19 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $14 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$4,890 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 334 family medicine providers in Alaska.
Other family medicine in Anchorage
- Mary FolandAnchorage$15K
- Ilona FarrAnchorage$14K
- Eric MiknichAnchorage$13K
- Allison KelliherAnchorage$6K
- Kathryn RyanAnchorage$5K
- Bruck CliftAnchorage$5K
- Ulyana StiassnyAnchorage$4K
- Pebbles ShanleyAnchorage$4K
- Kenneth MollAnchorage$3K
- Jane SimonoAnchorage$3K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.