Rick Espe
Pediatrics · Kansas City, MONPI 1356411706
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 167 payments — averaging $18.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Corium, LLC$433
- Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$396
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$297
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$232
- Cranial Technologies, Inc$206
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$171
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,059100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Corium, LLC | 19 | $433 |
| Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 13 | $396 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 20 | $297 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 11 | $232 |
| Cranial Technologies, Inc | 13 | $206 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 11 | $171 |
| Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 8 | $154 |
| Merck | 8 | $146 |
| Pfizer | 8 | $133 |
| Adlon Therapeutics L.p. | 9 | $124 |
| Kaleo, Inc. | 8 | $118 |
| Tris Pharma Inc | 6 | $114 |
| GSK | 6 | $92 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 6 | $82 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $63 |
| Noven Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $60 |
| Neos Therapeutics, LP | 3 | $47 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $27 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Sobi, Inc | 1 | $18 |
| Organon | 1 | $18 |
| Rhodes Pharmaceuticals L.p. | 1 | $17 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Vertical Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 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.
- QELBREE$170
How this compares
$3,059 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,306 pediatrics providers in Missouri.
Other pediatrics in Kansas City
- Nadine MokhallatiKansas City$10.2M
- Jennifer DiltsKansas City$517K
- Abbey MasonbrinkKansas City$505K
- Amanda NedvedKansas City$201K
- Jennifer GoldmanKansas City$114K
- Terri LuetjenKansas City$57K
- Sharon HumistonKansas City$41K
- Nikita RajeKansas City$23K
- Natasha BurgertKansas City$20K
- Jodi ShrobaKansas City$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.