Richard Fowler
Internal Medicine · Mesa, AZNPI 1316923584
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.2% of the total across 105 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 21 manufacturers reported payments, led by GSK at 28.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $666 and has fallen 85.5% since, to $97 in 2022.
Across 105 payments — averaging $17.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$532
- Amgen$360
- Grifols USA, LLC$183
- W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.$137
- Novo Nordisk$72
- Topcon Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$71
- plus $517 from 15 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,85799%
- Education$151%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 24 | $532 |
| Amgen | 30 | $360 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 9 | $183 |
| W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. | 2 | $137 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $72 |
| Topcon Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $56 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $55 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $46 |
| Bayer | 3 | $39 |
| Abbott | 2 | $39 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $38 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $26 |
| Novartis | 2 | $24 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Bardy Diagnostics, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $15 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,872 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.
Other internal medicine in Mesa
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- Rajesh JanardhananTucson$685K
- Mona SelejTucson$440K
- Kelly KrohnPhoenix$262K
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Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.