Pete Caples
Cardiovascular Disease · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1720065766
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 96 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 18 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 22.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. That places this record below the midpoint for cardiovascular disease clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $1,347.
Across 96 payments — averaging $16.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$360
- Amgen$297
- Novartis$204
- AstraZeneca$141
- Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.$135
- Philips North America LLC$84
- plus $366 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,587100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Johnson & Johnson | 22 | $360 |
| Amgen | 19 | $297 |
| Novartis | 12 | $204 |
| AstraZeneca | 11 | $141 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 8 | $135 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $84 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 4 | $69 |
| Braemar Manufacturing, LLC | 1 | $57 |
| Novo Nordisk | 2 | $32 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 3 | $32 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 2 | $31 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $27 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $27 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 2 | $24 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $23 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$1,587 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 827 cardiovascular disease providers in Ohio.
Other cardiovascular disease in Cincinnati
- Kamal ShemisaCincinnati$314K
- Richard BaeCincinnati$136K
- Dylan SteenCincinnati$91K
- Joel FormanCincinnati$64K
- Freidoon GhaziCincinnati$56K
- Wojciech MazurCincinnati$44K
- Guilherme AttizzaniCleveland$1.3M
- Gregory LamCircleville$428K
- Emil HayekHudson$379K
- Abraham LincoffCleveland$369K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.