Cindy Denk
Physician Assistant · East Lansing, MINPI 1396867297
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 301 payments — averaging $15.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$589
- Novo Nordisk$465
- Amgen$400
- AstraZeneca$371
- GSK$236
- Pfizer$224
- plus $3K from 40 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,796100%
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.
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
$4,796 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,453 physician assistant providers in Michigan.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 21 | $392 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 16 | $250 |
| Omeprazole | 18 | $228 |
| Lisinopril | 14 | $120 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in East Lansing
- Sarang PatelRoyal Oak$660K
- Beth SweneyAda$617K
- Zainab JishiCanton$596K
- Taylor HennrickAdrian$430K
- Erin van DykeGrand Rapids$346K
- Ashley AldridgeAnn Arbor$298K
- Derek SusallaRochester Hills$242K
- Gabrielle DamoreRoyal Oak$200K
- Melissa MickelsonKalamazoo$168K
- Patrick CooneyNew Baltimore$91K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.