Chotchai Boonkham
Internal Medicine · Bridgeton, MONPI 1417058959
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 113 payments — averaging $17.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$318
- Johnson & Johnson$288
- Lilly USA, LLC$283
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$267
- AstraZeneca$223
- AbbVie$90
- plus $547 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,016100%
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 | 21 | $318 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 12 | $288 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $283 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $267 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 16 | $223 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $90 |
| Merck | 5 | $79 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $60 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $49 |
| Novartis | 3 | $42 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $41 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $41 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $30 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Optos, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
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.
- Vascepa$125
How this compares
$2,016 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Amlodipine Besylate | 11 | $76 |
| Metformin Hcl | 14 | $64 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Bridgeton
- Naveed RazzaqueBridgeton$113K
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
- Craig DietzKansas City$4M
- Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
- Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
- Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
- Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
- Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K
- Dubert GuerreroIndependence$369K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.