Stephan Ames
Family Medicine · Springfield, ORNPI 1437109154
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.9% of the total across 319 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 33 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 21.4% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $2,254 and has fallen 92.7% since, to $164 in 2022. Among family medicine clinicians in OR with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 319 payments — averaging $17.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$1K
- Amgen$703
- AbbVie$537
- Pfizer$537
- Novo Nordisk$251
- Johnson & Johnson$238
- plus $2K from 27 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$5,611100%
- Education$60%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 47 | $1,202 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 48 | $703 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 26 | $537 |
| Pfizer | 42 | $537 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $251 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 15 | $238 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 12 | $232 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 12 | $200 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 10 | $169 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 7 | $160 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 8 | $133 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 7 | $128 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 7 | $123 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 5 | $95 |
| GSK | 5 | $83 |
| Eisai Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 4 | $78 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 5 | $77 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $76 |
| Merck | 4 | $69 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $68 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Novartis | 4 | $59 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $43 |
| Bayer | 2 | $29 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 1 | $24 |
| Mannkind Corporation | 1 | $23 |
| Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 1 | $19 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Philips North America 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
$5,617 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,221 family medicine providers in Oregon.
Other family medicine in Springfield
- Eden MillerBend$1.7M
- Anil RajaniHood River$325K
- Stephen NelsonMedford$101K
- Karen KahnAshland$86K
- Robert GobboPortland$53K
- Kevin MillerSisters$39K
- Morris MaizelsCentral Point$25K
- Maureen MaysPortland$24K
- Nathaniel FondellMedford$21K
- Carl EricksonMilwaukie$14K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.