Samantha Waitzman
Physician Assistant · Chicago, ILNPI 1457878225
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 239 payments — averaging $20.44 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$1K
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$707
- Lilly USA, LLC$623
- Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$603
- Sanofi$515
- Novartis$228
- plus $971 from 19 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,64795%
- Education$2375%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 70 | $1,237 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 25 | $707 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 37 | $623 |
| Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. | 27 | $603 |
| Sanofi | 22 | $515 |
| Novartis | 11 | $228 |
| Amgen | 4 | $115 |
| Dermavant Sciences, Inc. | 5 | $113 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $103 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 6 | $101 |
| EPI Health, LLC | 5 | $89 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $70 |
| Incyte Corporation | 3 | $69 |
| Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| LEO Pharma Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Verrica Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $28 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Dermira, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Journey Medical Corporation | 1 | $18 |
| Organon | 1 | $18 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Almirall LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Mission Pharmacal Company | 1 | $14 |
| Strata Skin Sciences, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$4,884 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,912 physician assistant providers in Illinois.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Clobetasol Propionate | 116 | $6,658 |
| Betamethasone Dipropionate | 126 | $5,228 |
| Ketoconazole | 191 | $2,883 |
| Clindamycin Phosphate | 48 | $2,201 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 84 | $961 |
| Nystatin-TriamcinoloneNystatin/Triamcinolone Acet | 27 | $861 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 40 | $807 |
| Mupirocin | 70 | $501 |
| Ciclopirox | 13 | $296 |
| Nystatin | 23 | $291 |
| Hydrocortisone | 47 | $262 |
| ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl | 17 | $170 |
| Prednisone | 29 | $126 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Chicago
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- Renata BlockChicago$103K
- Margaret RomanoChicago$82K
- Christina StarksChicago$77K
- Jessica KarlChicago$71K
- Kelly OconnorChicago$36K
- Christa CooperChicago$36K
- Audrey FenwickChicago$29K
- Amy LadewskiChicago$29K
- Lindsey KalhagenChicago$21K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.