Verneeda Spencer
Medical Oncology · Seattle, WANPI 1124054655
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 63 payments — averaging $26.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$230
- Bristol Myers Squibb$207
- AstraZeneca$198
- Genentech USA, Inc.$128
- Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$108
- Clovis Oncology, Inc.$99
- plus $719 from 21 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,53091%
- Education$1609%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 5 | $230 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 6 | $207 |
| AstraZeneca | 5 | $198 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 4 | $128 |
| Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $108 |
| Clovis Oncology, Inc. | 6 | $99 |
| Amgen | 3 | $85 |
| Novartis | 4 | $73 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 4 | $72 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 4 | $60 |
| Eisai Inc. | 2 | $48 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 2 | $42 |
| Bayer | 2 | $42 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $39 |
| Tesaro, Inc. | 1 | $24 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 1 | $23 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $23 |
| Incyte Corporation | 1 | $22 |
| Servier Pharmaceuticals LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Spectrum Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $20 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $20 |
| Helsinn Therapeutics (U.S.), Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Pharmacyclics LLC, An Abbvie Company | 1 | $18 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $15 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 1 | $14 |
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
$1,690 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 162 medical oncology providers in Washington.
Other medical oncology in Seattle
- Michael SchweizerSeattle$27.4M
- Ajay GopalSeattle$14.6M
- Scott TykodiSeattle$14.2M
- Evan YuSeattle$9.8M
- Christina BaikSeattle$9M
- David MaloneySeattle$8.5M
- Shailender BhatiaSeattle$7.5M
- Andrew CovelerSeattle$7.1M
- Jennifer SpechtSeattle$6.4M
- Vivian OehlerSeattle$5.5M
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.