Has Michael Savona, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $184 in general payments to Michael Savona, MD across 5 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 Savona, MD 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 Savona, MD 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 Savona, MD

Internal Medicine · Wailuku, HINPI 1750430799

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 5 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. accounts for 67.3% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. That places this record below the midpoint for internal medicine clinicians in HI, where the typical reported total is $185.

$184in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 5 payments — averaging $36.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$124
Novartis$60

$519,874in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 73 payments — averaging $7121.56 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.

Bayer$520K

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$184100%

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
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	3	$124
Novartis	2	$60

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.

OPDIVO$100

How this compares

$184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 655 internal medicine providers in Hawaii.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$5,538

Medicare patients

Services billed

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
JardianceEmpagliflozin	29	$40,527
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	16	$24,750
XareltoRivaroxaban	18	$17,087
Carvedilol ErCarvedilol Phosphate	14	$6,367
PremarinEstrogens, Conjugated	14	$4,312
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol	22	$3,915
Atorvastatin Calcium	84	$3,349
Raloxifene Hcl	18	$3,004
Lovastatin	61	$2,547
Felodipine ErFelodipine	35	$2,167
Amlodipine Besylate	100	$1,934
Metoprolol Succinate	72	$1,748
Losartan Potassium	70	$1,665
Metformin Hcl	104	$1,558
Tamsulosin Hcl	58	$1,356

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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