Ron Marek
Family Medicine · Wichita, KSNPI 1295701399
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 59 payments — averaging $25.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novo Nordisk$703
- AstraZeneca$119
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$100
- AbbVie$84
- Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$84
- Johnson & Johnson$65
- plus $371 from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,524100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $703 |
| AstraZeneca | 3 | $119 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $100 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $84 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $84 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 5 | $65 |
| Amgen | 3 | $52 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $41 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 2 | $34 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Antares Pharma, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $17 |
| Bioventus LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Merck | 1 | $14 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $12 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,524 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Kansas.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 27 | $357 |
| Omeprazole | 30 | $306 |
| Lisinopril | 35 | $242 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 25 | $198 |
| Simvastatin | 15 | $120 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 16 | $105 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 15 | $94 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 25 | $74 |
| Montelukast Sodium | 17 | $67 |
| Metformin Hcl | 11 | $65 |
| Losartan Potassium | 12 | $51 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Wichita
- Terry PolingWichita$24.2M
- Terry KleinWichita$5.9M
- Richard EgelhofWichita$4.1M
- Thomas KleinWichita$3.4M
- Brandon AllemanWichita$3M
- Tracy KleinWichita$2.7M
- William SimonWichita$1.1M
- Tana GoeringWichita$1.1M
- Gregory LakinWichita$897K
- Timothy KoehlerWichita$675K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.