Chiso Uko
Physician Assistant · Columbia, MDNPI 1093344459
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 176 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$487
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$407
- CSL Behring$310
- Pfizer$286
- Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$136
- Exact Sciences$133
- plus $1K from 30 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,097100%
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 | 34 | $487 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 30 | $407 |
| CSL Behring | 16 | $310 |
| Pfizer | 15 | $286 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 8 | $136 |
| Exact Sciences | 6 | $133 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 7 | $117 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Acella Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 5 | $104 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 5 | $102 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $83 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $72 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 4 | $71 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 4 | $63 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $59 |
| Phadia US Inc. | 2 | $58 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| IBSA Pharma Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Tolmar, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Pharmaessentia USA Corporation | 1 | $21 |
| Halozyme Inc | 1 | $21 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $21 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Pharming Healthcare, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| ARS Pharmaceuticals Operations, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Intra-sana Laboratories | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,097 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,567 physician assistant providers in Maryland.
Other physician assistant in Columbia
- Mackenzie DoshiColumbia$14K
- Isabel RoseColumbia$13K
- Emily OhlandColumbia$11K
- Margaret JoyceTowson$220K
- Kara CossisBaltimore$177K
- Michael RitmillerOwings Mills$92K
- Garland JamesSilver Spring$86K
- Melissa BearekmanBaltimore$81K
- Brittany YerkesSalisbury$81K
- Bruce SmithBaltimore$63K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.