Kathleen Yost
Medical Oncology · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1780685149
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $156 of the $180 with a category attached, or 86.5%. AstraZeneca accounts for 60.9% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $87 and has fallen 65.1% since, to $30 in 2023. That places this record below the midpoint for medical oncology clinicians in MI, where the typical reported total is $1,832.
Across 6 payments — averaging $30.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$110
- Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company$46
- Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$12
- Gilead$12
Across 84 payments — averaging $6548.45 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.
- Merck$320K
- Bristol Myers Squibb$134K
- Genentech, Inc.$43K
- Amgen$19K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$17K
- AbbVie$9K
- plus $8K from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$15686%
- Education$2414%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $110 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 2 | $46 |
| Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Gilead | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$180 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 170 medical oncology providers in Michigan.
Other medical oncology in Grand Rapids
- Sami BrakeGrand Rapids$251K
- Anas AljanadiGrand Rapids$62K
- Manish ThakurGrand Rapids$17K
- Zeyad SakoGrand Rapids$10K
- Harry ErbaAnn Arbor$1.1M
- Philip PhilipDetroit$494K
- Shirish GadgeelDetroit$413K
- Patricia Lo RussoDetroit$322K
- Ammar SukariDetroit$273K
- Frank WeinbergAnn Arbor$195K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.