Merritt Baumgartner
Physician Assistant · Gambrills, MDNPI 1538319041
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 134 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 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 13.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 134 payments — averaging $18.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Biogen$327
- AbbVie$275
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$218
- Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$208
- Shield Therapeutics Inc$203
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$162
- plus $1K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,445100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Biogen | 13 | $327 |
| AbbVie | 17 | $275 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 11 | $218 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 10 | $208 |
| Shield Therapeutics Inc | 12 | $203 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 8 | $162 |
| Myovant Sciences Inc. | 9 | $144 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $107 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $89 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 5 | $75 |
| Bayer | 4 | $72 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Aspira Women's Health Inc | 1 | $56 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 5 | $52 |
| Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated | 2 | $43 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $39 |
| Organon | 1 | $35 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $34 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Millicent US Inc | 2 | $32 |
| Scynexis, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Optumhealth Care Solutions, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Davol Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $15 |
| Hologic Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Evofem Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,567 physician assistant providers in Maryland.
Other physician assistant in Gambrills
- Margaret JoyceTowson$220K
- Kara CossisBaltimore$177K
- Garland JamesSilver Spring$86K
- Melissa BearekmanBaltimore$81K
- Brittany YerkesSalisbury$81K
- Amy CollierTimonium$29K
- Hannah JohnsonNottingham$27K
- Lisa FoxAnnapolis$26K
- Praveena GadamBaltimore$24K
- Jinhui YuanFrederick$21K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.