David Richter
Rheumatology · Akron, OHNPI 1821094954
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 303 payments — averaging $15.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$776
- Pfizer$703
- AbbVie$486
- Johnson & Johnson$366
- Genentech USA, Inc.$305
- Novartis$256
- plus $2K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,601100%
- Education$150%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 35 | $776 |
| Pfizer | 65 | $703 |
| AbbVie | 31 | $486 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 31 | $366 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 16 | $305 |
| Novartis | 20 | $256 |
| GSK | 18 | $255 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 16 | $249 |
| UCB, Inc. | 12 | $208 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 9 | $202 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 9 | $198 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 13 | $192 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $86 |
| Pacira Therapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 5 | $64 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $53 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 3 | $40 |
| Merck | 2 | $27 |
| Sebela Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Medexus Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $17 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 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
$4,616 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 255 rheumatology providers in Ohio.
Other rheumatology in Akron
- David BachaAkron$179K
- Margaret PullinAkron$25K
- Carlos ZevallosAkron$16K
- Megan BielawskiAkron$13K
- Isam DiabMiddleburg Hts$15.3M
- Sanford WolfeDayton$4.7M
- Jeffrey ChaitoffSolon$3.7M
- Nora SingerCleveland$3M
- Chacko AlappattMiamisburg$2M
- Leonard CalabreseCleveland$1.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.