Nikiru Ezeani
Nurse Practitioner · Silver Spring, MDNPI 1790900868
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 21 payments — averaging $78.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$363
- Angiodynamics, Inc.$247
- AbbVie$211
- Zealand Pharma US, Inc.$173
- Johnson & Johnson$138
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$125
- plus $393 from 5 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,650100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $363 |
| Angiodynamics, Inc. | 2 | $247 |
| AbbVie | 3 | $211 |
| Zealand Pharma US, Inc. | 2 | $173 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $138 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $125 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $114 |
| Janssen Products, LP | 1 | $102 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 5 | $98 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $61 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
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.
- REXULTI$363
- Auryon Laser System 100-120 Vac$247
- INVEGA SUSTENNA$138
- AUSTEDO$125
- VRAYLAR$124
- INGREZZA$114
- Symtuza$102
How this compares
$1,650 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,562 nurse practitioner providers in Maryland.
Medicare billing
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Buprenorphine Hcl | 65 | $4,528 |
| Lisinopril | 52 | $456 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 46 | $404 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 36 | $311 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 25 | $205 |
| Diclofenac Sodium | 12 | $200 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 11 | $165 |
| Metformin Hcl | 35 | $160 |
| Quetiapine Fumarate | 20 | $149 |
| Famotidine | 14 | $145 |
| Simvastatin | 11 | $123 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 25 | $104 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 15 | $103 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 12 | $100 |
| Losartan Potassium | 11 | $91 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Silver Spring
- Marianne WoodySilver Spring$5K
- Morgan GaleRockville$292K
- Sherilyn BrinkleyBaltimore$100K
- Michelle TurnerBaltimore$94K
- Nelli ZafmanLutherville$67K
- Ellen LancasterFallston$52K
- Doris TateEaston$34K
- Zeev NemirovskyBaltimore$19K
- Martha ReilleyAnnapolis$18K
- Stephanie ZwonitzerAnnapolis$16K
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.