Has Michael Owczarzak received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $15,917 in general payments to Michael Owczarzak across 939 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Owczarzak did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Owczarzak come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Owczarzak

Family Medicine · Flint, MINPI 1659371979

Payments from drug & device makers

$15,917in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 939 payments — averaging $16.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$2K
AstraZeneca$2K
GSK$1K
Novo Nordisk$782
Pfizer$778
Bayer$729
plus $8K from 43 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$15,904100%
Education$140%

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)	164	$2,154
AstraZeneca(2 entities)	84	$2,068
GSK	63	$1,011
Novo Nordisk	54	$782
Pfizer	59	$778
Bayer	41	$729
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	61	$722
Amgen	46	$721
Lilly USA, LLC	43	$696
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	32	$658
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	40	$568
Merck	24	$448
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	11	$391
Novartis	22	$375
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	8	$359
Lundbeck LLC	14	$270
Exact Sciences	13	$265
Alkermes, Inc.	11	$256
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	16	$248
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	17	$247
Boehringer Ingelheim	11	$207
Corcept Therapeutics	5	$207
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	10	$188
ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)	11	$184
Mylan Specialty L.p.	9	$147
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	7	$145
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	9	$145
Johnson & Johnson	7	$117
Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$85
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	4	$73
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	3	$62
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	3	$60
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	3	$58
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	3	$56
Evoke Pharma, Inc.	4	$54
Tolmar, Inc.	3	$45
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$44
Abbott	2	$41
Zyla Life Sciences, Inc.	3	$39
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	2	$35
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$30
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$25
UCB, Inc.	1	$21
Antares Pharma, Inc.	1	$21
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	1	$19
BD	1	$18
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$17
Eisai Inc.	1	$14
Ortho Dermatologics, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	1	$13

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.

AIRSUPRA$482
FARXIGA$466
BREZTRI$466
REXULTI$125
VRAYLAR$125
Auvelity$123
QULIPTA$122
AREXVY$120
Korlym$104

How this compares

$15,917 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	19	$1,214
Gabapentin	15	$422
Atorvastatin Calcium	15	$266
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	31	$203
Levothyroxine Sodium	17	$152
Amlodipine Besylate	11	$80
Prednisone	14	$16

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other family medicine in Flint

Ramez AbdallaFlint$25K
Derrick WilliamsonSouthfield$9.9M
Rebecca RivardRoseville$7M
Paul BensonBerkley$4.2M
Michael HafranEast Lansing$2.7M
Mitzie HewittBuckley$1.3M
Loren ChudlerSouthfield$1.3M
Solomon AmsterWhite Lake$981K
Matt RosenbergJackson$559K
Rhonda MejeurGrand Rapids$493K

See the full list for Michigan →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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