Steve Choi
Family Medicine · Dayton, OHNPI 1730186370
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 742 payments — averaging $6489.68 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$642K
- Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc.$585K
- Partner Therapeutics, Inc.$527K
- Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$506K
- Eli Lilly$340K
- Modernatx, Inc.$310K
- plus $1.9M from 26 others
Across 43 payments — averaging $8326.45 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.
- Celltrion, Inc.$299K
- Pfizer$54K
- Bausch Health US, LLC$3K
- Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$955
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 84 | $642,071 |
| Ortho-clinical Diagnostics, Inc. | 20 | $584,617 |
| Partner Therapeutics, Inc. | 40 | $527,338 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 102 | $505,662 |
| Eli Lilly | 18 | $339,987 |
| Modernatx, Inc. | 75 | $310,340 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 88 | $205,668 |
| GSK | 69 | $199,291 |
| Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc. | 12 | $186,765 |
| Abbott | 12 | $176,837 |
| H. Lundbeck A S | 42 | $172,111 |
| Lumos Diagnostics, Inc. | 2 | $138,000 |
| Romark Laboratories, LC | 2 | $134,271 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 30 | $128,837 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 36 | $128,410 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 17 | $90,394 |
| Astrazeneca UK Limited | 3 | $79,195 |
| Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 18 | $61,255 |
| Genentech, Inc. | 10 | $40,580 |
| Novartis | 11 | $36,856 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 8 | $29,331 |
| Sanofi US Services Inc. | 4 | $28,175 |
| GRT US Holding, Inc. | 10 | $26,149 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $13,183 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 2 | $12,525 |
| Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC | 5 | $9,849 |
| Cepheid | 1 | $4,500 |
| AstraZeneca | 10 | $1,521 |
| Shionogi Inc | 3 | $1,159 |
| Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. | 1 | $300 |
| Dr.reddy's Laboratories,inc. | 1 | $138 |
| 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
$4,815,344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Dayton
- Martin SchearDayton$2.2M
- Michael ButcherCincinnati$18.3M
- William RandallKettering$7.5M
- Paul NugentCincinnati$4.9M
- Rajesh DavitCincinnati$2M
- Kwabena OtengSpringdale$2M
- Blaise GattoMoraine$1.8M
- Cathy GreiweColumbus$1.4M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
- Thomas GraceFindlay$1.3M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.