Michael Gieske
Family Medicine · Edgewood, KYNPI 1316903636
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $7,041 of the $9,427 with a category attached, or 74.7%. 25 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 55.5% of the total. 2024 is the largest year on record at $6,969, more than ten times the $467 reported in 2019. Among family medicine clinicians in KY 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 104 payments — averaging $90.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$5K
- Eli Lilly$3K
- Intuitive Surgical$176
- Body Vision Medical Inc.$173
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$146
- Merck$122
- plus $755 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$7,04175%
- Travel & lodging$5326%
- Food & beverage$1,85420%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 18 | $5,229 |
| Eli Lilly | 2 | $2,825 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 2 | $176 |
| Body Vision Medical Inc. | 3 | $173 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 9 | $146 |
| Merck | 23 | $122 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $111 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 4 | $102 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $84 |
| GSK | 5 | $71 |
| Amgen | 4 | $61 |
| Novartis | 3 | $45 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $43 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 4 | $39 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $28 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $25 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $20 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $18 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $15 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $11 |
| Dynavax Technologies Corporation | 1 | $7 |
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
$9,427 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other family medicine in Edgewood
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$933K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Edward SchumannFlorence$79K
- Ronald KoffNew Castle$71K
- Suraj GathaniLouisville$69K
- Bradley GrayFlorence$51K
- Jackie KazeeAshland$45K
- Mandy WhittLouisville$38K
- Derek JonesAshland$37K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.