Karen Trent-Mims
Internal Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1952329336
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 382 payments — averaging $15.96 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$1K
- AstraZeneca$722
- GSK$558
- Lilly USA, LLC$538
- AbbVie$435
- Merck$428
- plus $2K from 26 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$6,083100%
- Education$160%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 66 | $1,015 |
| AstraZeneca | 35 | $722 |
| GSK | 33 | $558 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 35 | $538 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 33 | $435 |
| Merck | 35 | $428 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 30 | $426 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 23 | $389 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 15 | $277 |
| Pfizer | 20 | $237 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 9 | $223 |
| Bayer | 6 | $141 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 10 | $109 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $71 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $69 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 3 | $41 |
| Abbott | 2 | $35 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $26 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Acerus Pharmaceuticals Corporation | 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.
- FARXIGA$109
How this compares
$6,098 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.
Other internal medicine in Baltimore
- Kristen MarroneBaltimore$5.6M
- Peta-Gay Jackson BoothBaltimore$3.6M
- Mark YarchoanBaltimore$2.4M
- Gabrielle PrinceBaltimore$2.1M
- Jessica TaoBaltimore$1.2M
- Ana-Maria OrbaiBaltimore$1.1M
- Julie PaikBaltimore$1M
- Christopher MelaniBaltimore$997K
- Ethel WeldBaltimore$792K
- Christian GockeBaltimore$725K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.