Michael Chitwood
Family Medicine · Trafalgar, INNPI 1548298912
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 95 payments — averaging $14.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$264
- Novartis$138
- Lilly USA, LLC$134
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$107
- AstraZeneca$87
- Amgen$75
- plus $579 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,35498%
- Education$292%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $264 |
| Novartis | 5 | $138 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 9 | $134 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 14 | $107 |
| AstraZeneca | 7 | $87 |
| Amgen | 4 | $75 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $62 |
| Merck | 4 | $60 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 3 | $53 |
| GSK | 4 | $50 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 3 | $40 |
| Bayer | 2 | $39 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $37 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| Corium, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $24 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 2 | $23 |
| Exact Sciences | 1 | $22 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $12 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,383 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Gabapentin | 22 | $245 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 28 | $164 |
| Metformin Hcl ErMetformin Hcl | 11 | $150 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 27 | $148 |
| Metoprolol Succinate | 13 | $127 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 23 | $119 |
| Fluticasone Propionate | 11 | $109 |
| Lisinopril | 25 | $91 |
| Metformin Hcl | 11 | $81 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 13 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Trafalgar
- Blair BrengleIndianapolis$10.6M
- Laura HelmanMishawaka$4M
- J Christopher SartoreEvansville$3.9M
- Hubert ReyesEvansville$3.2M
- David SchultzEvansville$3M
- Steven SmithIndianapolis$2.5M
- Renee Michelle GalenNewburgh$2.1M
- Eric HewittAvon$1.7M
- Alexander Dela LlanaEvansville$1.6M
- Jonathan ConditMuncie$1.6M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.