Lawrence Swink
Family Medicine · Columbia, MDNPI 1891724548
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 96 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 25 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,044 and has fallen 98.9% since, to $12 in 2021.
Across 96 payments — averaging $13.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$187
- Merck$150
- Amgen$123
- Lilly USA, LLC$110
- AstraZeneca$75
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$74
- plus $593 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,29999%
- Education$141%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 17 | $187 |
| Merck | 15 | $150 |
| Amgen | 8 | $123 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $110 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $75 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $74 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $70 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 6 | $70 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 4 | $64 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $40 |
| GSK | 2 | $36 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $35 |
| AbbVie | 2 | $31 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $27 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| Quidel Corporation | 1 | $16 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Abbott | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 2 | $14 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $12 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,313 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,193 family medicine providers in Maryland.
Other family medicine in Columbia
- Alkesh PatelColumbia$42K
- Njideka UdochiColumbia$12K
- Karen DonaldsonBaltimore$899K
- Louis JacquesBaltimore$522K
- Michael ObiefuneBaltimore$291K
- Thomas LawrenceBerlin$254K
- Casey ScottCambridge$88K
- Daljeet SalujaBaltimore$63K
- Sanjay SaxenaHagerstown$60K
- Cynthia KleppingerSilver Spring$51K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.