Sonia Chacko, MD
Internal Medicine · Saint Louis, MONPI 1497951008
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 228 payments — averaging $17.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$855
- Pfizer$544
- Novo Nordisk$512
- Lilly USA, LLC$332
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$227
- AstraZeneca$201
- plus $1K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$4,013100%
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 | 42 | $855 |
| Pfizer | 44 | $544 |
| Novo Nordisk | 29 | $512 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 17 | $332 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 16 | $227 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $201 |
| Novartis | 8 | $164 |
| Amgen | 8 | $148 |
| Exact Sciences | 8 | $143 |
| GSK | 8 | $131 |
| Abbott | 6 | $115 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $111 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 5 | $87 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 3 | $67 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $66 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 4 | $61 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $34 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 2 | $32 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 1 | $24 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 1 | $23 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Nevro Corp. | 1 | $19 |
| Vertex | 1 | $18 |
| Bayer | 1 | $15 |
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
$4,013 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 208 | $176,186 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 70 | $71,372 |
| MounjaroTirzepatide | 44 | $53,740 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 35 | $45,509 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 21 | $30,934 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 34 | $27,992 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 28 | $22,560 |
| Toujeo SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog | 17 | $12,039 |
| ArexvyRsvpref3 Antigen/As01e/Pf | 40 | $11,044 |
| AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf | 37 | $10,219 |
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 674 | $9,297 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 825 | $8,905 |
| Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol | 17 | $7,762 |
| Bydureon BciseExenatide Microspheres | 12 | $7,645 |
| VascepaIcosapent Ethyl | 19 | $7,184 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis, Abrysvo | $544 | $186,406245 claims |
| Novo NordiskOzempic | $512 | $71,37270 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro | $332 | $53,74044 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance | $32 | $45,50935 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $164 | $22,56028 claims |
| GSKArexvy, Breo Ellipta | $131 | $18,80657 claims |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa | $19 | $3,96411 claims |
| AbbVieSynthroid | $855 | $3,74450 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 85th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.
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- Paul OlivoSaint Louis$98K
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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.