John Sanders
Internal Medicine · Ashland, KYNPI 1790709749
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 78 payments — averaging $20.12 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$342
- Amgen$217
- Gilead$138
- Merck$137
- Johnson & Johnson$67
- Pfizer$65
- plus $603 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,569100%
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 | 15 | $342 |
| Amgen | 12 | $217 |
| Gilead | 5 | $138 |
| Merck | 8 | $137 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $67 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $65 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $64 |
| Seagen Inc. | 3 | $58 |
| Coherus Oncology, Inc. | 2 | $50 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $41 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $41 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $40 |
| ADC Therapeutics America, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $31 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $29 |
| Stemline Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 1 | $24 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Blueprint Medicines Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Electromed, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,569 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,284 internal medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other internal medicine in Ashland
- Mark AdamsLondon$15.4M
- Matthew WenkerErlanger$12.8M
- Jason ChesneyLouisville$6.3M
- Neil FarrisLexington$3M
- David JohnsonOwensboro$787K
- Hollis ClarkMurray$780K
- Fares KhaterWhitesburg$412K
- Christopher PhillipsPaducah$315K
- Cynthia Bowman-StroudPaducah$234K
- Bernard BuchananOwensboro$224K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.