Suzanne Schaffer
Internal Medicine · Bedford, OHNPI 1306945233
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 93 payments — averaging $14.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Amgen$156
- Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$153
- GSK$151
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$127
- Johnson & Johnson$120
- Novo Nordisk$116
- plus $498 from 17 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,30899%
- Education$121%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Amgen | 10 | $156 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 9 | $153 |
| GSK | 13 | $151 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 9 | $127 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 10 | $120 |
| Novo Nordisk | 9 | $116 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 5 | $84 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $58 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 3 | $51 |
| Merck | 3 | $38 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $35 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 2 | $33 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $25 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $16 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $13 |
| Novartis | 1 | $12 |
| Circassia Inc. | 1 | $11 |
How this compares
$1,320 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.
Other internal medicine in Bedford
- Antoinette PragalosCincinnati$27.8M
- Steven FolkerthBeavercreek$9.1M
- Charles EgerCincinnati$8.7M
- Vadim KoshkinCleveland$6.1M
- Nizar DaboulMaumee$4.7M
- Douglas LoganCincinnati$4.7M
- Seref BornovaliLoveland$4.4M
- Yevgeniy BukhmanCanton$3.7M
- Leela VrishabhendraCincinnati$3.4M
- Narinder SainiSpringfield$3.2M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.