Stephen Grado
Internal Medicine · Jackson, MSNPI 1083230916
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 92 payments — averaging $32.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Abbott$379
- Abiomed$224
- Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$209
- AstraZeneca$190
- Novo Nordisk$170
- Pfizer$169
- plus $2K from 22 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,65288%
- Education$36012%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Abbott | 3 | $379 |
| Abiomed | 2 | $224 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $209 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $190 |
| Novo Nordisk | 4 | $170 |
| Pfizer | 9 | $169 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 10 | $158 |
| Novartis | 9 | $154 |
| Acist Medical Systems, Inc. | 1 | $149 |
| Cvrx, Inc. | 1 | $146 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 3 | $133 |
| Boston Scientific | 3 | $123 |
| Scpharmaceuticals Inc. | 3 | $123 |
| Merck | 5 | $91 |
| Amgen | 1 | $91 |
| Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. | 4 | $87 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 3 | $65 |
| Bridgebio Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Medtronic | 2 | $32 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $31 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $30 |
| Cordis US CORP. | 1 | $25 |
| Procyrion, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 1 | $21 |
| Bayer | 1 | $20 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Biotronik Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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.
- ENSITE$262
- HD-IVUS$149
- Barostim Neo System$146
- Impella$125
How this compares
$3,012 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 846 internal medicine providers in Mississippi.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Calcitriol | 12 | $103 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 11 | $39 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other internal medicine in Jackson
- Bob HutchinsJackson$4.6M
- Sarah KerutJackson$319K
- Gabriel HernandezJackson$196K
- Kelly WilkinsonJackson$183K
- Christina BarlowJackson$129K
- Carrie WynnJackson$69K
- Shanna PettieJackson$53K
- Brendan RossJackson$19K
- Hassan CheemaJackson$16K
- James WilliamsJackson$15K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.