Gita Sprague
Internal Medicine · Saint Joseph, MONPI 1033149240
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 121 payments — averaging $14.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$264
- Pfizer$179
- Amgen$172
- Boehringer Ingelheim$160
- Johnson & Johnson$135
- GSK$127
- plus $730 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,768100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $264 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $179 |
| Amgen | 9 | $172 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 14 | $160 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $135 |
| GSK | 10 | $127 |
| Novartis | 8 | $106 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $75 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $72 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $61 |
| Merck | 4 | $59 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $57 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $52 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $49 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $38 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $31 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $25 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 1 | $22 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $18 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,768 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in Saint Joseph
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
- Craig DietzKansas City$4M
- Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
- Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
- Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
- Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
- Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K
- Dubert GuerreroIndependence$369K
- Hany SalamaSaint Louis$279K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.