Charles Canter
Pediatric Cardiology · Saint Louis, MONPI 1063453504
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $845 of the $1,394 with a category attached, or 60.7%. Merck accounts for 74.3% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,071 and has fallen 85.1% since, to $160 in 2024.
Across 14 payments — averaging $99.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$1K
- Novartis$162
- Paragonix Technologies, Inc.$160
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$36
Across 82 payments — averaging $7663.83 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$429K
- Merck$104K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$46K
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$33K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$17K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$84561%
- Food & beverage$54839%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 8 | $1,035 |
| Novartis | 2 | $162 |
| Paragonix Technologies, Inc. | 3 | $160 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $36 |
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
$1,394 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 79 pediatric cardiology providers in Missouri.
Other pediatric cardiology in Saint Louis
- David BalzerSaint Louis$181K
- Jennifer SilvaSaint Louis$108K
- Kel Vin WooSaint Louis$100K
- Daisuke KobayashiSaint Louis$49K
- Tracy ConnerSaint Louis$41K
- Anthony PompaSaint Louis$22K
- Dominic ZanaboniSaint Louis$7K
- Toby RockefellerSaint Louis$7K
- Andrew GlatzSaint Louis$2K
- Alicia KamshehSaint Louis$1K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.