Kara Szczomak, PA
Physician Assistant · Clinton Township, MINPI 1013280262
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,742 of the $5,298 with a category attached, or 89.5%. It is spread thinly across 17 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 20.5% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Among physician assistant clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 339 payments — averaging $15.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Novartis$960
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$571
- Lilly USA, LLC$333
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$319
- plus $996 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,74289%
- Education$55711%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 82 | $1,086 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 76 | $1,033 |
| Novartis | 73 | $960 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 30 | $571 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 18 | $333 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 15 | $319 |
| Sanofi | 11 | $237 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 3 | $206 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 11 | $184 |
| UCB, Inc. | 5 | $108 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $63 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 4 | $59 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 2 | $46 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Organon | 2 | $30 |
| Solta Medical, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $19 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $13 |
How this compares
$5,298 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,453 physician assistant providers in Michigan.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dupixent PenDupilumab | 55 | $207,748 |
| Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab | 14 | $103,345 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 12 | $55,492 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Clinton Township
- Christine GoClinton Township$20K
- Sarang PatelRoyal Oak$660K
- Beth SweneyAda$617K
- Zainab JishiCanton$596K
- Taylor HennrickAdrian$430K
- Erin van DykeGrand Rapids$346K
- Ashley AldridgeAnn Arbor$298K
- Derek SusallaRochester Hills$242K
- Gabrielle DamoreRoyal Oak$200K
- Melissa MickelsonKalamazoo$168K
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.