Has John Szymczak, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $478 in general payments to John Szymczak, MD across 14 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 John Szymczak, MD 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 John Szymczak, MD 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.

John Szymczak, MD

Family Medicine · Munster, INNPI 1972701928

Payments from drug & device makers

$478in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 14 payments — averaging $34.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Penumbra, Inc.$117
Boston Scientific$101
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$93
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$51
Johnson & Johnson$26
Merck$26
plus $65 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$478100%

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
Penumbra, Inc.	1	$117
Boston Scientific	1	$101
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	2	$93
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$51
Johnson & Johnson	1	$26
Merck	2	$26
Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$20
Exact Sciences	1	$17
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$17
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	1	$11

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.

Indigo System$117
Watchman$101

How this compares

$478 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$171,623

Medicare patients

450

Services billed

1,578

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban	48	$27,698
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan	22	$14,791
OzempicSemaglutide	11	$10,816
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol	13	$7,060
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol	13	$6,955
Midodrine Hcl	18	$2,835
Celecoxib	30	$1,639
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	95	$1,339
Pantoprazole Sodium	113	$1,261
Potassium Chloride	90	$1,153
Bumetanide	25	$882
Labetalol Hcl	40	$872
Irbesartan	59	$738
Atorvastatin Calcium	120	$641
Gabapentin	82	$633

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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David SchultzEvansville$3M
Steven SmithIndianapolis$2.5M
Renee Michelle GalenNewburgh$2.1M
Eric HewittAvon$1.7M
Alexander Dela LlanaEvansville$1.6M
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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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