Emily Ptasnik
Dermatology · Cheboygan, MINPI 1801470059
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 193 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 23 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 16.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,530 and has fallen 76.9% since, to $817 in 2025.
Across 193 payments — averaging $42.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$807
- Novartis$732
- Lilly USA, LLC$621
- UCB, Inc.$611
- Sanofi$590
- plus $4K from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$8,230100%
- Education$80%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 34 | $1,315 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $807 |
| Novartis | 40 | $732 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 14 | $621 |
| UCB, Inc. | 11 | $611 |
| Sanofi | 16 | $590 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 14 | $587 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 4 | $468 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 6 | $463 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $373 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 7 | $316 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $276 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 2 | $243 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 4 | $189 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $169 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $139 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 4 | $134 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $55 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $39 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Biotissue Holdings Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Organon | 1 | $16 |
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
$8,238 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 404 dermatology providers in Michigan.
Other dermatology in Cheboygan
- Linda Stein GoldWest Bloomfield$3.3M
- Kristi HawleyCaledonia$2.2M
- David AltmanWarren$1.9M
- Michael SiegelWaterford$708K
- Johann GudjonssonAnn Arbor$535K
- Michael DormanWest Bloomfield$433K
- Steven DaveluyDearborn$350K
- Benjamin WorkmanMidland$284K
- Diana WestgateKalamazoo$252K
- Christofer BuattiAuburn Hills$247K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.