Christin Destefano
Hematology & Oncology · Bethesda, MDNPI 1124388384
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 131 payments — averaging $796.15 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$97K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$4K
- AbbVie$342
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$238
- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$217
- Incyte Corporation$209
- plus $2K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,04296%
- Education$1154%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 10 | $97,137 |
| Janssen Research & Development, LLC | 3 | $4,116 |
| AbbVie | 10 | $342 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 16 | $238 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 9 | $217 |
| Incyte Corporation | 6 | $209 |
| Sanofi | 8 | $209 |
| Mirati Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $163 |
| AstraZeneca(2 entities) | 8 | $144 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $143 |
| Exelixis Inc. | 5 | $129 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $123 |
| Gilead | 4 | $122 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 1 | $122 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 5 | $99 |
| Morphosys, US Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Genmab U.S., Inc. | 2 | $66 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 2 | $62 |
| Sobi, Inc | 2 | $49 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Recordati_rare_diseases_inc. | 2 | $45 |
| AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Amgen | 3 | $39 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $36 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Seagen Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $26 |
| GSK | 1 | $25 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Immunogen, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Beone Medicines USA, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| BTG International Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 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.
How this compares
$104,295 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 242 hematology & oncology providers in Maryland.
Other hematology & oncology in Bethesda
- Ralph BocciaBethesda$12.1M
- Giuseppe GiacconeBethesda$5.4M
- Tim GretenBethesda$4.2M
- Alice ChenBethesda$3.4M
- James GulleyBethesda$2.9M
- Steven PavleticBethesda$2.2M
- Sandra SwainBethesda$1M
- Susan LeitmanBethesda$252K
- Matthew HsiehBethesda$249K
- Robert KreitmanOlney$54.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.