Steven Sterneberg
Family Medicine · Crittenden, KYNPI 1356301626
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 96.4% of the total across 229 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 22 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,707 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $239 in 2021.
Across 229 payments — averaging $11.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$386
- AbbVie$277
- GSK$246
- Pfizer$235
- Novo Nordisk$227
- Johnson & Johnson$205
- plus $1K from 16 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,60996%
- Education$964%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 13 | $386 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 31 | $277 |
| GSK | 28 | $246 |
| Pfizer | 26 | $235 |
| Novo Nordisk | 19 | $227 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 18 | $205 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 20 | $205 |
| Novartis | 17 | $187 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 10 | $179 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 18 | $177 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 6 | $93 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 5 | $60 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 4 | $46 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $29 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 2 | $28 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $26 |
| Merck | 2 | $24 |
| Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $22 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $12 |
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.
How this compares
$2,705 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 1,559 family medicine providers in Kentucky.
Other family medicine in Crittenden
- Christopher RhyneLouisville$933K
- John RichardLexington$226K
- James TurnboPaducah$124K
- Edward SchumannFlorence$79K
- Ronald KoffNew Castle$71K
- Suraj GathaniLouisville$69K
- Bradley GrayFlorence$51K
- Jackie KazeeAshland$45K
- Mandy WhittLouisville$38K
- Derek JonesAshland$37K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.