David Parks
Internal Medicine · St Louis, MONPI 1649315219
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (55.8%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Gilead accounts for 75.0% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $41,886 and has fallen 96.4% since, to $1,521 in 2021. Among internal medicine clinicians in MO with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 144 payments — averaging $349.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$38K
- Viiv Healthcare Company$11K
- Theratechnologies Inc.$843
- Merck$204
- Janssen Products, LP$100
- EMD Serono, Inc.$89
- plus $136 from 5 others
Across 51 payments — averaging $3399.74 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$95K
- Gilead$78K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$12,11024%
- Speaking & faculty fees$28,13556%
- Travel & lodging$8,02416%
- Food & beverage$2,0184%
- Education$1050%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 87 | $37,804 |
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 26 | $11,215 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 3 | $843 |
| Merck | 11 | $204 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 1 | $100 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 4 | $89 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 6 | $55 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $28 |
| Amgen | 2 | $23 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $16 |
| AbbVie | 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
$50,392 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in St Louis
- Patrick McCannSt Louis$22K
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$428K
- Craig DietzKansas City$226K
- Kevin SuttmoellerKansas City$198K
- Vinay KamatSaint Louis$191K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$182K
- Dima DandachiColumbia$157K
- Justin SteinkampSaint Charles$139K
- Tracy NorfleetSaint Louis$132K
- Paul OlivoSaint Louis$98K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.