Steve Choi
Family Medicine · Dayton, OHNPI 1730186370
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $6,111 of the $8,477 with a category attached, or 72.1%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Chiesi USA, Inc. at 27.6% of the total. Among family medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 43 payments — averaging $197.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$2K
- AstraZeneca$2K
- Modernatx, Inc.$1K
- Shionogi Inc$1K
- Novartis$1K
- AbbVie$325
- plus $532 from 4 others
Across 742 payments — averaging $6960.79 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Pfizer$696K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$585K
- Partner Therapeutics, Inc.$527K
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$506K
- Eli Lilly$340K
- Modernatx, Inc.$309K
- plus $2.2M from 24 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$6257%
- Travel & lodging$6,11172%
- Food & beverage$1,70320%
- Education$380%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 2 | $2,341 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $1,521 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 14 | $1,476 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $1,159 |
| Novartis | 7 | $1,122 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $325 |
| Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | 1 | $300 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 2 | $165 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $29 |
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.
- AIRSUPRA$1,445
How this compares
$8,477 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Dayton
- Martin SchearDayton$28K
- Kimbra JoyceDayton$20K
- Kwabena OtengSpringdale$2M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
- Darshana PatelBeachwood$648K
- Thomas GraceFindlay$503K
- Susan RatayAshtabula$379K
- Shannon TrotterSpringfield$348K
- Michael HeileCincinnati$272K
- Bradley EverlyMaumee$266K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.