Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

GEORGE WHITNEY READER

Allopathic & Osteopathic Physicians Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology

NPI
1508812744
CMS profile
204307
Location
WICHITA, KS

General Payments · PY2018–2023

$5,190.77

  • Reported across 327 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2023

$277.04

16 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $277.04 16

By paying entity

PY2023 · sorted by reported total

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2018 $1,061.43 55
PY2019 $656.20 43
PY2020 $793.89 53
PY2021 $1,443.44 99
PY2022 $958.77 61
PY2023 $277.04 16

Payment records · PY2023 (16)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2023 20182019202020212022 Record-level detail is published for PY2023; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
Abbott Laboratories $37.59 03/26/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1017849615 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.13 01/10/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1019915723 CMS
Amgen Inc. $20.90 04/13/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1019915725 CMS
Amgen Inc. $15.67 05/11/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1019915727 CMS
Amgen Inc. $16.72 06/13/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1019915729 CMS
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $13.83 03/23/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1015087759 CMS
CVRx, Inc. $16.55 03/13/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1058571493 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $21.55 03/17/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 987855001 CMS
Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc $15.94 04/14/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 987855009 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $16.76 01/19/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048280309 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $17.00 02/16/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048280307 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $14.90 03/16/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048722447 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $13.09 04/20/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048854293 CMS
Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC $13.19 05/18/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1048280305 CMS
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $21.11 05/19/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 992913209 CMS
Surmodics, Inc. $7.11 05/01/2023 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1041880073 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2018 , PY2019 , PY2020 , PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2023_P01232026_01102026.csv

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