Has Rita Nagawa received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,289 in general payments to Rita Nagawa across 62 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 Rita Nagawa 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 Rita Nagawa 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.

Rita Nagawa

Physician Assistant · Canton, GANPI 1487255113

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 62 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 28 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.6% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $968, 4.7 times the $204 reported in 2021.

$1,289in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 62 payments — averaging $20.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Legend Biotech USA Inc.$189
Bristol Myers Squibb$105
Johnson & Johnson$83
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$82
Novo Nordisk$79
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$70
plus $682 from 22 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$1,289100%

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
Legend Biotech USA Inc.	8	$189
Bristol Myers Squibb	4	$105
Johnson & Johnson	4	$83
Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC	3	$82
Novo Nordisk	4	$79
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	3	$70
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$65
Incyte Corporation	3	$59
Pfizer	4	$55
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$49
AbbVie	2	$47
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	2	$47
GSK	3	$45
AstraZeneca	3	$39
Merck	1	$30
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	1	$26
Gilead	1	$26
Beone Medicines USA, Inc.	1	$25
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.	1	$22
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.	1	$20
Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC	1	$19
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	1	$17
Acrotech Biopharma Inc.	1	$17
Sobi, Inc	1	$16
Astellas Pharma US Inc	1	$16
Genmab U.S., Inc.	1	$15
Boehringer Ingelheim	1	$15
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$14

How this compares

$1,289 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,581 physician assistant providers in Georgia.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Ipratropium Bromide	12	$343
Omeprazole	12	$136

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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