Gary Postelwait
Internal Medicine · Tulsa, OKNPI 1972523934
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 94 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 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 19.0% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 94 payments — averaging $14.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$262
- Pfizer$241
- Amgen$165
- Johnson & Johnson$72
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$67
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$65
- plus $508 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,380100%
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 | 18 | $262 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $241 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 10 | $165 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $72 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $67 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 4 | $65 |
| GSK | 5 | $61 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $57 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $53 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $53 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $52 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Nalpropion Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $26 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $22 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $15 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$1,380 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 840 internal medicine providers in Oklahoma.
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- Gerard McNultyTulsa$27K
- Peter LantzTulsa$23K
- Sudip TripathyTulsa$21K
- John RuffingTulsa$21K
- Joseph ReeseTulsa$18K
- Mark GallesTulsa$17K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.