Michael Reschak
Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1396735734
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $189.
Across 1 payment — averaging $24.45 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$24
Across 73 payments — averaging $45,757 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$3M
- Regeneron$344K
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$12K
- Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$9K
- Novartis$5K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$24100%
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $24 |
How this compares
$24 in reported general payments places this provider in the 20th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in Saint Louis
- Vinay KamatSaint Louis$191K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$182K
- Tracy NorfleetSaint Louis$132K
- Paul OlivoSaint Louis$98K
- William SummersSaint Louis$93K
- Mark ScheperleSaint Louis$89K
- Shiyang ZhangSaint Louis$45K
- Bernard McGuireSaint Louis$37K
- Daniel GaitanSaint Louis$34K
- Nathan FarkasSaint Louis$33K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.