Norman Means
Family Medicine · Bluffton, INNPI 1871798892
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,860 of the $2,564 with a category attached, or 72.5%. 19 manufacturers reported payments, led by Roche Diagnostics Corporation at 28.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,187 and has fallen 89.0% since, to $130 in 2024.
Across 87 payments — averaging $29.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Roche Diagnostics Corporation$719
- Novo Nordisk$274
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$224
- AstraZeneca$216
- Lilly USA, LLC$200
- GSK$165
- plus $765 from 13 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$69527%
- Food & beverage$1,86073%
- Education$90%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 2 | $719 |
| Novo Nordisk | 15 | $274 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $224 |
| AstraZeneca | 8 | $216 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 11 | $200 |
| GSK | 7 | $165 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 5 | $140 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $130 |
| Amgen | 6 | $116 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 5 | $71 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 4 | $61 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $55 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $42 |
| Merck | 1 | $35 |
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $25 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $15 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 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.
- Auvelity$115
- Tresiba$115
- TRELEGY ELLIPTA$104
How this compares
$2,564 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.
Other family medicine in Bluffton
- Richard TannerIndianapolis$1.6M
- James AndryBloomington$715K
- Richard FeldmanIndianapolis$476K
- Anthony InzerelloEvansville$308K
- Joe BanksIndianapolis$294K
- Steven GatewoodElwood$281K
- Shekar PushpalaCarmel$239K
- Victoria MoyerKokomo$188K
- Thomas KintanarFort Wayne$185K
- Jeffrey HiltzMuncie$177K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.