Don Hess
Internal Medicine · Chickasha, OKNPI 1417984113
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 74 payments — averaging $14.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$183
- Johnson & Johnson$143
- Bayer$114
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$95
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$88
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$66
- plus $386 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,00794%
- Education$696%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 11 | $183 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $143 |
| Bayer | 7 | $114 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $95 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 11 | $88 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $66 |
| Amgen | 3 | $46 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $35 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $32 |
| GSK | 2 | $25 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $19 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $16 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $15 |
| Vyera Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Merck | 1 | $12 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,075 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 840 internal medicine providers in Oklahoma.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Memantine Hcl | 12 | $322 |
| Finasteride | 13 | $159 |
| Allopurinol | 13 | $150 |
| Donepezil Hcl | 11 | $128 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Chickasha
- Al-Ola AbdallahTulsa$10.1M
- Melita TateTulsa$9.1M
- Sagila GeorgeOklahoma City$1.8M
- Ryan MorganOklahoma City$775K
- Renae MayerTulsa$766K
- George FreemanIdabel$742K
- Elise WiesnerNorman$584K
- Steve EgwuonwuLawton$464K
- Mousumi SomTulsa$391K
- Jesse RichardsTulsa$279K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.