Steven Heddinger, MD
Medical Oncology · Des Moines, IANPI 1750344743
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 203 payments — averaging $15.22 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Johnson & Johnson$411
- AstraZeneca$290
- AbbVie$158
- Novartis$144
- Genentech USA, Inc.$134
- Pfizer$110
- plus $2K from 38 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,01598%
- Education$752%
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.
How this compares
$3,090 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 47 medical oncology providers in Iowa.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| RevlimidLenalidomide | 23 | $428,329 |
| CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate | 26 | $376,595 |
| ImbruvicaIbrutinib | 23 | $349,601 |
| ErleadaApalutamide | 28 | $324,832 |
| Lenalidomide | 20 | $250,547 |
| PromactaEltrombopag Olamine | 13 | $220,797 |
| IbrancePalbociclib | 17 | $201,374 |
| RetevmoSelpercatinib | 12 | $200,418 |
| Imatinib Mesylate | 63 | $103,744 |
| VenclextaVenetoclax | 13 | $76,009 |
| Abiraterone Acetate | 15 | $23,254 |
| EliquisApixaban | 39 | $23,134 |
| Enoxaparin Sodium | 13 | $4,949 |
| Anastrozole | 153 | $2,551 |
| Exemestane | 16 | $2,096 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid | $83 | $428,32923 claims |
| AstraZenecaCalquence | $290 | $376,59526 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonErleada | $411 | $324,83228 claims |
| PfizerIbrance, Eliquis | $110 | $224,50856 claims |
| NovartisPromacta | $144 | $220,79713 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCRetevmo | $88 | $200,41812 claims |
| AbbVieVenclexta | $158 | $76,00913 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 47 medical oncology providers in Iowa.
Other medical oncology in Des Moines
- Abdelaziz ElhaddadDes Moines$185K
- Brian FreemanDes Moines$161K
- Mathew WehbeDes Moines$121K
- Emily BrugioniDes Moines$56K
- Robert BehrensDes Moines$44K
- Christian SchultheisDes Moines$19K
- Giselle MeryDes Moines$12K
- Millicent AmankwahDes Moines$3K
- Bradley HiattDes Moines$780
- Matthew HillDes Moines$378
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.