Valesia Phillips
Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1225080625
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 203 payments — averaging $17.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$379
- Johnson & Johnson$363
- Merck$310
- Boehringer Ingelheim$303
- Novo Nordisk$298
- Amgen$276
- plus $2K from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$3,635100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 21 | $379 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 21 | $363 |
| Merck | 19 | $310 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 13 | $303 |
| Novo Nordisk | 17 | $298 |
| Amgen | 16 | $276 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 15 | $263 |
| Pfizer | 12 | $247 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 11 | $186 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 7 | $162 |
| Novartis | 9 | $155 |
| GSK | 9 | $143 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 7 | $105 |
| Kowa Pharmaceuticals America, Inc. | 4 | $70 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 4 | $68 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 4 | $58 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 3 | $44 |
| Abbott | 1 | $36 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 2 | $31 |
| Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Avion Pharmaceuticals | 1 | $15 |
| Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA | 1 | $12 |
How this compares
$3,635 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.
Other internal medicine in Chicago
- Dennis LevinsonChicago$25.3M
- Danny SugimotoChicago$4M
- Peter O DonnellChicago$3.9M
- Daniel CatenacciChicago$3.5M
- Patricia WalshChicago$2.1M
- Merle DiamondChicago$1.7M
- Mohammed KassemChicago$1.3M
- David BakerChicago$1M
- Azazuddin AhmedChicago$912K
- Daniel BergerChicago$861K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.