John Morris
Medical Oncology · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1407055700
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $14,000 of the $16,300 with a category attached, or 85.9%. Merck accounts for 99.2% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $16,238 and has fallen 99.9% since, to $15 in 2021.
Across 18 payments — averaging $905.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$16K
- Novartis$73
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$27
- Pinnacle Biologics, Inc$20
- Pfizer$15
Across 577 payments — averaging $2380.96 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.
- EMD Serono, Inc.$1.1M
- F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$111K
- Novartis$32K
- AbbVie$31K
- Merck$20K
- Genentech, Inc.$14K
- plus $20K from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$14,00086%
- Travel & lodging$1,92112%
- Food & beverage$3522%
- Education$270%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 13 | $16,165 |
| Novartis | 1 | $73 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $27 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 1 | $20 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $15 |
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.
- KEYTRUDA$16,135
How this compares
$16,300 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 157 medical oncology providers in Ohio.
Other medical oncology in Cincinnati
- Elyse LowerCincinnati$312K
- Leslie OleksowiczCincinnati$14K
- Gina ChungCincinnati$13K
- David CarboneColumbus$438K
- Moshe OrnsteinCleveland$249K
- Christian RolfoColumbus$227K
- Timothy MooreColumbus$213K
- Maryam LustbergColumbus$176K
- Suneel KamathCleveland$120K
- Mark MarinellaKettering$84K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.