Susan Whitely, MD
Family Medicine · Phoenix, AZNPI 1427013762
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 278 payments — averaging $36.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Merck$3K
- Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$1K
- Guerbet LLC$1K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$688
- AbbVie$633
- Novo Nordisk$498
- plus $3K from 31 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,20041%
- Speaking & faculty fees$1,07510%
- Food & beverage$4,96748%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Merck | 16 | $3,233 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $1,262 |
| Guerbet LLC | 1 | $1,000 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 38 | $688 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 35 | $633 |
| Novo Nordisk | 31 | $498 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 16 | $422 |
| AstraZeneca | 15 | $381 |
| Abbott | 14 | $361 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 21 | $329 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 8 | $206 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 13 | $196 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 8 | $120 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Pfizer | 6 | $94 |
| Amgen | 5 | $78 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 5 | $76 |
| Bayer | 4 | $58 |
| Exact Sciences | 3 | $50 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $48 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 3 | $45 |
| Biohaven Pharmaceutical Holding Company Ltd. | 2 | $39 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Spinal Simplicity, LLC | 1 | $27 |
| Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $20 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $18 |
| Emergent Biosolutions Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $16 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| GSK | 1 | $15 |
| Idorsia Pharmaceuticals US Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Promius Pharma LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 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.
- NURTEC ODT$1,200
- PNEUMOVAX 23$1,075
- ELUCIREM$1,000
- Vascepa$126
- AIRSUPRA$122
- BREZTRI$122
- FARXIGA$122
- VRAYLAR$110
- FREESTYLE LIBRE 3$102
How this compares
$10,242 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Levothyroxine Sodium | 86 | $769 |
| Atorvastatin Calcium | 42 | $458 |
| Rosuvastatin Calcium | 31 | $381 |
| Escitalopram Oxalate | 17 | $323 |
| Lisinopril | 42 | $319 |
| Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl | 16 | $315 |
| Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate | 12 | $307 |
| Pravastatin Sodium | 12 | $255 |
| Estradiol | 12 | $241 |
| Simvastatin | 12 | $192 |
| Amlodipine Besylate | 16 | $123 |
| Trazodone Hcl | 12 | $88 |
| Sertraline Hcl | 13 | $51 |
| Losartan Potassium | 12 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family medicine in Phoenix
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- Douglas CunninghamPhoenix$4.9M
- Jeffrey ZacherPhoenix$2M
- Trisha TavaresPhoenix$1.6M
- David FrancykPhoenix$1.3M
- James BeachPhoenix$1.2M
- Peter LevinsPhoenix$971K
- Elysa ShawPhoenix$774K
- Mitchell EdelsteinPhoenix$741K
- Brian DedinskyPhoenix$589K
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.