Has Heather Venema received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,213 in general payments to Heather Venema across 161 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Heather Venema did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Heather Venema come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Heather Venema

Medical · Peoria, AZNPI 1457584823

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,213in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 161 payments — averaging $26.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Novartis$503
Incyte Corporation$464
Merck$315
Seagen Inc.$297
Lilly USA, LLC$230
Pfizer$187
plus $2K from 34 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$3,62086%
Education$59314%

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
Novartis	24	$503
Incyte Corporation	12	$464
Merck	11	$315
Seagen Inc.	7	$297
Lilly USA, LLC	9	$230
Pfizer	8	$187
Bristol Myers Squibb	9	$163
Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company	3	$151
AstraZeneca	6	$148
Exelixis Inc.	5	$142
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	5	$141
AbbVie	5	$133
Sobi, Inc	5	$106
Genentech USA, Inc.	4	$97
Johnson & Johnson	4	$95
Genmab U.S., Inc.	3	$91
AVEO Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$82
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	3	$79
Bayer	3	$61
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$59
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$59
Astellas Pharma US Inc	2	$56
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$55
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$51
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$45
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	2	$41
Morphosys, US Inc.	2	$40
Gilead	2	$39
Blueprint Medicines Corporation	1	$32
Caris MPI, Inc.	1	$29
Array Biopharma Inc	1	$27
Pharmaessentia USA Corporation	1	$26
EMD Serono, Inc.	1	$24
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$23
Geron Corporation	1	$22
Taiho Oncology, Inc.	1	$22
Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation	1	$22
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$19
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$19
Immunocore Limited	1	$17

How this compares

$4,213 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 748 medical providers in Arizona.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Letrozole	87	$2,531
Hydroxyurea	36	$1,108
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl	26	$796
Ondansetron Hcl	58	$477
Anastrozole	18	$445
Oxycodone Hcl	53	$227
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	17	$194
Dexamethasone	13	$191
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate	13	$189
Omeprazole	21	$188
Prednisone	37	$114
Prochlorperazine Maleate	11	$109
Potassium Chloride	67	$103
Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine	11	$55
Cephalexin	11	$42

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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