Douglas Ward
Internal Medicine · Washington, DCNPI 1396830725
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $163,865 of the $233,072 with a category attached, or 70.3%. Viiv Healthcare Company accounts for 73.9% of it on its own, with 13 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $144,912 and has fallen 100.0% since, to $18 in 2023. Among internal medicine clinicians in DC 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 334 payments — averaging $697.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Viiv Healthcare Company$172K
- Merck$26K
- Gilead$21K
- Theratechnologies Inc.$9K
- Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc$3K
- GSK$1K
- plus $345 from 8 others
Across 48 payments — averaging $4597.67 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.
- Gilead$218K
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$3K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$35,74515%
- Speaking & faculty fees$163,86570%
- Travel & lodging$26,53911%
- Food & beverage$6,8233%
- Education$1000%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Viiv Healthcare Company | 200 | $172,305 |
| Merck | 44 | $25,634 |
| Gilead | 46 | $21,017 |
| Theratechnologies Inc. | 14 | $9,457 |
| Napo Pharmaceuticals Inc | 4 | $3,292 |
| GSK | 9 | $1,022 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $119 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 1 | $100 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $21 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $19 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $13 |
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
$233,072 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 645 internal medicine providers in District of Columbia.
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.