Valerie Owen
Family · Baltimore, MDNPI 1457809055
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (58.4%), travel and lodging and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 27 manufacturers reported payments, led by Ardelyx, Inc. at 50.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $7,915 and has fallen 73.6% since, to $2,091 in 2025. Among family 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 254 payments — averaging $48.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ardelyx, Inc.$6K
- AbbVie$1K
- Johnson & Johnson$915
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$759
- Sanofi$564
- Enterra Medical, Inc.$445
- plus $2K from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1,33011%
- Travel & lodging$3,73030%
- Food & beverage$7,20958%
- Education$761%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 23 | $6,178 |
| AbbVie | 63 | $1,227 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 37 | $915 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 33 | $759 |
| Sanofi | 13 | $564 |
| Enterra Medical, Inc. | 3 | $445 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 17 | $407 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 17 | $342 |
| Pfizer | 14 | $315 |
| Madrigal Pharmaceuticals | 2 | $147 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $138 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $120 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $115 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 5 | $114 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 6 | $86 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $73 |
| Coloplast | 1 | $71 |
| Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc. | 2 | $60 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $53 |
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Digestive Care, Inc. | 1 | $38 |
| Amgen | 1 | $32 |
| Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $23 |
| Celltrion USA Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $15 |
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
$12,345 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,843 family 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 |
|---|---|---|
| LinzessLinaclotide | 61 | $72,196 |
| Mesalamine | 16 | $16,448 |
| MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate | 11 | $9,485 |
| Mesalamine DrMesalamine | 13 | $8,408 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 17 | $6,415 |
| Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg | 281 | $5,930 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 13 | $5,787 |
| Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates | 34 | $1,867 |
| Omeprazole | 65 | $1,160 |
| Famotidine | 85 | $1,121 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 61 | $956 |
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | 12 | $799 |
| Mirtazapine | 19 | $719 |
| Ondansetron Hcl | 11 | $694 |
| Gavilyte-GPeg3350/Sod Sulf,bicarb,cl/Kcl | 38 | $577 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $1,227 | $72,19661 claims |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity | $759 | $9,48511 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 2,843 family providers in Maryland.
Other family in Baltimore
- Hazel Jones-ParkerBaltimore$96K
- Brittany WilsonBaltimore$88K
- Lisa ScottiBaltimore$35K
- Leah HartBaltimore$32K
- Jinae ArneklevBaltimore$24K
- Eldho ChackoBaltimore$12K
- Melonie OwusuBaltimore$10K
- Amanda NevinBaltimore$9K
- Suryamol ChackoBaltimore$9K
- Erika HoffmanPotomac$226K
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.