David Gauze, APRN
Family · Ashland, KYNPI 1144572314
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 54 payments — averaging $20.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$302
- Bayer$260
- Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$108
- Lilly USA, LLC$67
- Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc.$58
- OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC$57
- plus $241 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,03695%
- Education$575%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 15 | $302 |
| Bayer | 15 | $260 |
| Travere Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $108 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $67 |
| Aurinia Pharma U.S., Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| OPKO Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 3 | $57 |
| Calliditas Therapeutics US Inc. | 3 | $56 |
| Akebia Therapeutics Inc | 2 | $44 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 1 | $42 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $30 |
| Novartis | 1 | $28 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$1,094 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,374 family providers in Kentucky.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tolvaptan | 22 | $96,411 |
| Potassium Chloride | 97 | $2,943 |
| Hydralazine Hcl | 172 | $2,280 |
| SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb | 25 | $1,806 |
| Carvedilol | 200 | $1,307 |
| Furosemide | 223 | $1,258 |
| Torsemide | 47 | $1,168 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 125 | $755 |
| Nifedipine ErNifedipine | 26 | $677 |
| Bumetanide | 20 | $673 |
| Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride | 19 | $640 |
| Losartan Potassium | 46 | $386 |
| Metolazone | 15 | $341 |
| Spironolactone | 60 | $339 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 27 | $261 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Ashland
- Ashley MaloneAshland$14K
- Bonnie HillLouisa$372K
- Ashley SnellenElizabethtown$190K
- Smita RanjanLouisville$92K
- Elizabeth SaltLexington$89K
- Tracey GaslinLouisville$79K
- Kassandra GreenLouisville$69K
- Danielle RevertLouisville$65K
- Lora BrownMonticellow$61K
- Shelley WaldmanLouisville$59K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.