Grant Paulsen
Pediatric Infectious Diseases · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1568683548
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $753 of the $891 with a category attached, or 84.5%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck.
Across 8 payments — averaging $111.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$891
Across 193 payments — averaging $10,100 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.
- Pfizer$1.8M
- Merck$64K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$52K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$31K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$75385%
- Food & beverage$13815%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 8 | $891 |
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.
- V114$753
How this compares
$891 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 43 pediatric infectious diseases providers in Ohio.
Other pediatric infectious diseases in Cincinnati
- Robert FrenckCincinnati$77K
- David BernsteinCincinnati$67K
- Lara Danziger-IsakovCincinnati$27K
- Sing Sing WayCincinnati$16K
- Mary StaatCincinnati$9K
- Elizabeth SchlaudeckerCincinnati$7K
- Mark MurphyCincinnati$322
- David HaslamCincinnati$127
- Samir ShahCincinnati$101
- Sanjay JainCincinnati$51
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.