Samuel Hoeper
Internal Medicine · Kansas City, MONPI 1700877792
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 158 payments — averaging $14.17 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Lilly USA, LLC$325
- Pfizer$303
- Amgen$231
- Novo Nordisk$187
- AbbVie$152
- Boehringer Ingelheim$124
- plus $916 from 20 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,239100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $325 |
| Pfizer | 30 | $303 |
| Amgen | 16 | $231 |
| Novo Nordisk | 13 | $187 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $152 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 6 | $124 |
| Merck | 7 | $102 |
| Eisai Inc. | 6 | $91 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 6 | $88 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $82 |
| GSK | 5 | $79 |
| Novartis | 4 | $59 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $55 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $50 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $39 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $39 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $37 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $36 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Biogen | 2 | $26 |
| Tersera Therapeutics LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $19 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Abbott | 1 | $16 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $16 |
| BD | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$2,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
Other internal medicine in Kansas City
- Craig DietzKansas City$4M
- Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
- Kevin SuttmoellerKansas City$198K
- Karla Houston-GrayKansas City$24K
- Timothy SmithSaint Peters$21.4M
- Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
- Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
- Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
- David PrelutskySaint Louis$575K
- Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.