Has Steven Gruenebaum received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $8,532 in general payments to Steven Gruenebaum across 572 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Steven Gruenebaum did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Steven Gruenebaum come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Steven Gruenebaum

Internal Medicine · Kansas City, MONPI 1750349155

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,532in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 572 payments — averaging $14.92 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$1K
Lilly USA, LLC$922
Novo Nordisk$887
Amgen$680
Abbott$676
AstraZeneca$624
plus $4K from 43 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$8,532100%

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(2 entities)	76	$1,111
Lilly USA, LLC	58	$922
Novo Nordisk	71	$887
Amgen(2 entities)	46	$680
Abbott	27	$676
AstraZeneca	43	$624
Merck	24	$337
Pfizer	27	$313
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	22	$304
Boehringer Ingelheim	17	$266
Amarin Pharma, Inc.	13	$221
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC	16	$201
Bayer	10	$180
GSK	11	$153
Johnson & Johnson	9	$130
Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc.	9	$124
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	7	$119
Novartis	9	$117
Boston Scientific	6	$112
Eisai Inc.	7	$111
Mylan Specialty L.p.	6	$94
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	6	$86
Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	4	$63
Astellas Pharma US Inc	4	$60
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.	4	$56
Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd.	3	$53
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$51
Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	3	$50
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.	2	$46
Mannkind Corporation	2	$41
Antares Pharma, Inc.	2	$27
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$25
Genentech USA, Inc.	2	$25
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	2	$25
Nevro Corp.	1	$24
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.	2	$23
Neurelis, Inc.	1	$21
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$19
Viiv Healthcare Company	1	$19
Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$19
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	1	$16
Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc	1	$15
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC	1	$14
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$14
Aytu Biopharma, Inc.	1	$14
Clarus Therapeutics Inc.	2	$13
Vertiflex, Inc.	1	$11
Circassia Inc.	1	$11
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	2	$7

How this compares

$8,532 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,097 internal medicine providers in Missouri.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Atorvastatin Calcium	13	$46

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other internal medicine in Kansas City

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Santosh SharmaKansas City$782K
Kevin SuttmoellerKansas City$198K
Karla Houston-GrayKansas City$24K
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Michael ReschakSaint Louis$3.1M
Dima DandachiColumbia$1.2M
Jianbo WangChesterfield$643K
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Danish JabbarSaint Louis$510K

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Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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