Michael Gordon
Rheumatology · Toledo, OHNPI 1396728143
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 118 payments — averaging $19.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$589
- AbbVie$386
- UCB, Inc.$289
- Novartis$252
- Pfizer$250
- Lilly USA, LLC$110
- plus $462 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,336100%
- Education$20%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen(2 entities) | 18 | $589 |
| AbbVie | 27 | $386 |
| UCB, Inc. | 7 | $289 |
| Novartis | 13 | $252 |
| Pfizer | 17 | $250 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 7 | $110 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $87 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 8 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $55 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 2 | $28 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $27 |
| GSK | 2 | $26 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 2 | $25 |
| Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $21 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Assertio Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 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
$2,338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 255 rheumatology providers in Ohio.
Other rheumatology in Toledo
- M KahalehToledo$647K
- Edward GoldbergerToledo$197K
- Nezam AltorokToledo$57K
- Aaron PumerantzToledo$11K
- Isam DiabMiddleburg Hts$15.3M
- Sanford WolfeDayton$4.7M
- Jeffrey ChaitoffSolon$3.7M
- Nora SingerCleveland$3M
- Chacko AlappattMiamisburg$2M
- Leonard CalabreseCleveland$1.9M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.