Teja Mehendale
Family Medicine · Pontiac, MINPI 1982250692
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 120 payments — averaging $23.63 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$666
- Novo Nordisk$567
- Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC$194
- Bausch Health US, LLC$171
- ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$159
- AstraZeneca$131
- plus $948 from 16 others
Across 1 payment — averaging $6563.00 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Novartis$7K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$2,836100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | 29 | $666 |
| Novo Nordisk | 26 | $567 |
| Mayne Pharma Commercial LLC | 9 | $194 |
| Bausch Health US, LLC | 7 | $171 |
| ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.) | 6 | $159 |
| AstraZeneca | 6 | $131 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $120 |
| Exact Sciences | 5 | $119 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $102 |
| Abbott | 3 | $89 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 3 | $77 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 2 | $69 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 3 | $63 |
| Bayer | 3 | $62 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $51 |
| Amgen | 2 | $42 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $38 |
| Medicomp Inc | 1 | $29 |
| Seqirus USA Inc | 1 | $25 |
| Agile Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $25 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
How this compares
$2,836 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.
Other family medicine in Pontiac
- Derrick WilliamsonSouthfield$9.9M
- Rebecca RivardRoseville$7M
- Paul BensonBerkley$4.2M
- Michael HafranEast Lansing$2.7M
- Mitzie HewittBuckley$1.3M
- Loren ChudlerSouthfield$1.3M
- Solomon AmsterWhite Lake$981K
- Matt RosenbergJackson$559K
- Rhonda MejeurGrand Rapids$493K
- Steve LasaterSaint Johns$291K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.