Megan Niese
Physician Assistant · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1467741470
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 178 payments — averaging $20.33 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$412
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$376
- Pfizer$318
- Johnson & Johnson$311
- Incyte Corporation$262
- plus $745 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,34392%
- Education$2768%
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) | 77 | $1,195 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 11 | $412 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 29 | $376 |
| Pfizer | 16 | $318 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $311 |
| Incyte Corporation | 7 | $262 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $205 |
| Novartis | 8 | $150 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 2 | $79 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 4 | $71 |
| UCB, Inc. | 3 | $65 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Almirall LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Biofrontera Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$3,619 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,098 physician assistant providers in Ohio.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Fluorouracil | 12 | $685 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 27 | $192 |
| Mupirocin | 20 | $113 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Cincinnati
- Steven WurzelbacherCincinnati$309K
- Alan OdonnellCincinnati$71K
- Melissa DoveCincinnati$41K
- Emily AnkromDayton$192K
- Amanda MaggartWorthington$164K
- Megan SevillaMayfield Heights$132K
- Erin StrculaBelpre$106K
- Natalie WalkupSylvania$105K
- Sarah LaubNew Albany$100K
- Jessica RhominskiCanal Winchester$78K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.