Has Susan Williams, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $4,957 in general payments to Susan Williams, MD across 25 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 Susan Williams, MD 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 Susan Williams, MD 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.

Susan Williams, MD

Internal Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1316058993

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,410 of the $4,957 with a category attached, or 89.0%. Lifescan, Inc. accounts for 89.1% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $4,442 and has fallen 95.0% since, to $222 in 2025. Among internal medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$4,957in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $198.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Lifescan, Inc.$4K
UCB, Inc.$294
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc$89
Amgen$68
Dexcom, Inc.$37
Novo Nordisk$32
plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$4,41089%
Travel & lodging$90%
Food & beverage$53811%

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
Lifescan, Inc.	2	$4,419
UCB, Inc.	10	$294
Ascendis Pharma Endocrinology Inc	5	$89
Amgen	3	$68
Dexcom, Inc.	2	$37
Novo Nordisk	2	$32
Steelhead Surgical Inc	1	$17

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.

OneTouch$4,410

How this compares

$4,957 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$35,423

Medicare patients

272

Services billed

427

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
StrensiqAsfotase Alfa	23	$3,201,661
Teriparatide	67	$183,544
CrysvitaBurosumab-Twza	16	$168,799
ForteoTeriparatide	17	$89,441
Cinacalcet Hcl	26	$14,977
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate	13	$11,488
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro	18	$9,160
HumalogInsulin Lispro	12	$2,895
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog	32	$2,787
Ultra-Fine Mini Pen NeedlePen Needle, Diabetic	36	$2,569
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium	29	$1,950
Levothyroxine Sodium	64	$709
Calcitriol	29	$485
Glipizide ErGlipizide	15	$232
Methimazole	30	$190

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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