Has Paula Escobar, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,962 in general payments to Paula Escobar, MD across 25 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 Paula Escobar, 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 Paula Escobar, 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.

Paula Escobar, MD

Gynecology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1356022503

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $3,394 of the $4,962 with a category attached, or 68.4%. Applied Medical Resources Corporation accounts for 78.5% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $4,484, more than ten times the $227 reported in 2023.

$4,962in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $198.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Applied Medical Resources Corporation$4K
Merit Medical Systems Inc$267
AbbVie$227
Stryker$199
Merck$180
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$142
plus $49 from 2 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$3,39468%
Food & beverage$1,56732%

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
Applied Medical Resources Corporation	11	$3,897
Merit Medical Systems Inc	2	$267
AbbVie	2	$227
Stryker	2	$199
Merck	2	$180
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	4	$142
Solventum Corporation	1	$30
Medtronic	1	$19

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.

GelPOINT Advanced Access Platform$3,325
Savi SCOUT$267
NATRELLE SALINE-FILLED BREAST IMPLANTS$137
MOLLI$137
SENTIMAG$123
Magseed$123
Magtrace$123

How this compares

$4,962 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 77 gynecology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$61,648

Medicare patients

Services billed

284

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.

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Joseph FranzeseCincinnati$18K
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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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