Susan Huppmann
Acute Care · Baltimore, MDNPI 1114437266
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (44.8%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Edwards Lifesciences accounts for 70.8% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among acute care clinicians in MD with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 152 payments — averaging $106.79 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Edwards Lifesciences$11K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Boston Scientific$482
- Philips North America LLC$18
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$2,00012%
- Travel & lodging$6,72941%
- Food & beverage$7,27245%
- Education$2311%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Edwards Lifesciences | 78 | $11,490 |
| Medtronic | 24 | $2,162 |
| Abbott | 43 | $2,080 |
| Boston Scientific | 6 | $482 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $18 |
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
$16,232 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 502 acute care providers in Maryland.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mupirocin | 129 | $914 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 25 | $558 |
| Prednisone | 19 | $13 |
| Amoxicillin | 12 | $10 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Baltimore
- Paige GriffithBaltimore$106K
- T Nicole KelleyBaltimore$46K
- Amy GoodrichBaltimore$27K
- Rama AnthonyBaltimore$20K
- Eleanor DunlapBaltimore$11K
- Lateaqua AlstonBaltimore$9K
- Archana PatelBaltimore$8K
- Tamara HillBaltimore$8K
- Robert GoodfellowBaltimore$7K
- Margaret AustinBaltimore$6K
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.