Margaret Rhee
Obstetrics & Gynecology · Akron, OHNPI 1093763534
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,694 of the $9,803 with a category attached, or 68.3%. 12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Modernatx, Inc. at 30.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,215 and has fallen 82.3% since, to $1,098 in 2025. Among obstetrics & gynecology clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 73 payments — averaging $134.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Modernatx, Inc.$3K
- AstraZeneca$3K
- Eli Lilly$1K
- Amgen$1K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$780
- AbbVie$174
- plus $311 from 6 others
Across 6,731 payments — averaging $2918.11 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$8.5M
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$2.6M
- Pfizer$1.4M
- Vertex$1.4M
- Novavax Inc$1.1M
- Janssen Research & Development, LLC$855K
- plus $3.8M from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$6,69468%
- Food & beverage$2,98730%
- Education$1211%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Modernatx, Inc. | 11 | $2,994 |
| AstraZeneca | 14 | $2,929 |
| Eli Lilly | 14 | $1,447 |
| Amgen | 4 | $1,168 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $780 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $174 |
| AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 7 | $121 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $66 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 3 | $43 |
| Lupin Inc. | 2 | $38 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Bayer | 1 | $13 |
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.
How this compares
$9,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,376 obstetrics & gynecology providers in Ohio.
Other obstetrics & gynecology in Akron
- Samir AhujaMentor$430K
- Burton BrodskySylvania$202K
- Sandor MecsSteubenville$190K
- David SchwartzCincinnati$169K
- Erin OlahColumbus$97K
- David PortmanColumbus$94K
- Anita SomaniColumbus$93K
- Lorie Thomas-SchultzFindlay$92K
- Oluwatosin GojeCleveland$81K
- Gerard ReillyCincinnati$74K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.