Michelle Kravitz
Pediatrics · Bethesda, MDNPI 1215906524
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 29 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 16 manufacturers reported payments, led by Sanofi Pasteur Inc. at 29.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $379, 5.3 times the $71 reported in 2020.
Across 29 payments — averaging $28.48 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$242
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$114
- Tris Pharma Inc$90
- Pfizer$81
- GSK$62
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc$40
- plus $198 from 10 others
Across 44 payments — averaging $17,783 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.
- GSK$377K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$329K
- Otsuka Pharmaceutical Development & Commercialization, Inc.$58K
- AstraZeneca$15K
- Astrazeneca UK Limited$4K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$826100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $242 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $114 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 5 | $90 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $81 |
| GSK | 4 | $62 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $40 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $22 |
| Alk-abello, Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $21 |
| Organon | 1 | $20 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 1 | $15 |
| Cumberland Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
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
$826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,307 pediatrics providers in Maryland.
Other pediatrics in Bethesda
- Evgenia GourgariBethesda$10K
- Edward TaborBethesda$5K
- Nuria CarrilloBethesda$4K
- Deborah MerkeBethesda$3K
- Jitendrakumar ModiAnnapolis$149K
- Mary Elizabeth YoungerBaltimore$130K
- Hari SachsRockville$114K
- Brenda BanwellBaltimore$109K
- Ellen FieldsSilver Spring$68K
- John ThomsonBaltimore$67K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.