Emily Thitoff
Acute Care · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1861996423
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,640 of the $2,407 with a category attached, or 68.1%. Medtronic accounts for 90.2% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $2,324, more than ten times the $42 reported in 2021. Among acute care clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 29 payments — averaging $83.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medtronic$2K
- Baxter Healthcare$49
- AstraZeneca$35
- Abiomed$32
- Amgen$30
- Atricure, Inc.$23
- plus $68 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,64068%
- Food & beverage$76732%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medtronic | 18 | $2,172 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 1 | $49 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $35 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $32 |
| Amgen | 2 | $30 |
| Atricure, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $19 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $18 |
| Kestra Medical Technology Services, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$2,407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,101 acute care providers in Ohio.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 33 | $334 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 18 | $67 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Cincinnati
- Julie LurieCincinnati$13K
- Laura LangenhopCincinnati$8K
- Jennifer ClarkCincinnati$7K
- Amy HawkinsCincinnati$7K
- Rebecca BlantonCincinnati$6K
- Carrie MyersCincinnati$6K
- Kathleen RoederCincinnati$6K
- Nicole BrownCincinnati$5K
- Donna AbdelnourCincinnati$5K
- Bonnie AlbertCincinnati$4K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.