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Obesity Medicine (Internal Medicine)
In 2025, 71 Obesity Medicine (Internal Medicine) providers had general (non-research) payments reported to CMS. Half received less than $202 for the year, and nine in ten received less than $22K.
71providers with payments in 2025
$202median total for the year
$22Knine in ten received less than
$10Kaverage total for the year
Providers with the largest 2025 totals
Ordered by 2025 general-payment totals as reported to CMS. A large total is not evidence of wrongdoing; context is below the table.
| Provider | Location | 2025 general | All payments 2019-2025 including research |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angela Kay Fitch | Boston, MA | $182,326.04 | $400,693.44 |
| Sameer B Murali | Houston, TX | $92,249.33 | $93,370.86 |
| Alicia D Shelly | Douglasville, GA | $85,842.66 | $203,077.80 |
| Whitney Anne Blakley | Indianapolis, IN | $77,023.73 | $182,044.05 |
| Katherine D Duncan | Phoenix, AZ | $75,510.37 | $213,585.39 |
| Winfield Scott Butsch | Cleveland, OH | $34,108.20 | $102,970.18 |
| Omar Shamsi | Elmhurst, IL | $29,850.35 | $38,844.19 |
| Amanda Velazquez | Los Angeles, CA | $22,090.57 | $69,474.02 |
| Gitanjali Srivastava | Nashville, TN | $21,529.36 | $178,543.56 |
| Bharti K Shetye | Tampa, FL | $18,108.03 | $21,083.59 |
| Diana Margarita Plata | Arlington Heights, IL | $17,892.29 | $18,635.26 |
| Eduardo L Grunvald | San Diego, CA | $13,947.78 | $65,645.75 |
| Kristina H Lewis | Winston Salem, NC | $13,772.09 | $13,772.09 |
| Sriram Machineni | Chapel Hill, NC | $9,453.15 | $106,035.04 |
| Fredric M Pieracci | Denver, CO | $8,114.48 | $18,246.88 |
| Richa Mittal | Frisco, TX | $7,405.24 | $8,376.94 |
| Rita Karana Kathawa | Sterling Heights, MI | $3,258.05 | $6,066.54 |
| Nova Szoka | Morgantown, WV | $2,806.06 | $5,775.10 |
| Sunil Daniel | Allentown, PA | $2,417.50 | $9,440.65 |
| Benjamin Duffy | Neenah, WI | $2,134.73 | $2,196.27 |
| Sree Lakshmi Gogineni | Vienna, VA | $1,382.62 | $4,197.96 |
| Bruce K Baker | Puyallup, WA | $1,314.41 | $4,239.45 |
| Justin A Lindsey | Salem, VA | $706.23 | $1,387.65 |
| Jawan C Ayer Cole | Tampa, FL | $610.03 | $84,864.98 |
| Jennifer Diane Schwartz | Needham, MA | $563.75 | $1,407.09 |
| Arshad Ali | Arlington, VA | $525.21 | $1,058.17 |
| Alan P Glombicki | Houston, TX | $473.93 | $93,174.24 |
| Sarah H Finn | Manchester, NH | $462.84 | $785.54 |
| Jeffrey Ryan Pua | Westmont, IL | $408.01 | $24,552.78 |
| Viktoriya Yanchuk | West Hills, CA | $403.14 | $1,047.05 |
| Shirly H Ramchandani | Brighton, MA | $387.31 | $2,262.28 |
| Kurt James Reyes | Mckinney, TX | $307.66 | $4,471.49 |
| Firas Ghomraoui | Asheville, NC | $269.06 | $390.18 |
| Diala Alatassi | Elmhurst, IL | $262.86 | $814.66 |
| Charles W Seltzer | Philadelphia, PA | $251.39 | $623.43 |
| Ronald Harvey Johnson | Fredericksburg, VA | $201.95 | $318.35 |
| Melody Covington | Charlotte, NC | $179.35 | $99,944.59 |
| Virginia Moffitt Crawford | Hattiesburg, MS | $177.91 | $1,219.35 |
| Joanne M Lebow | Burlington, MA | $138.90 | $454.68 |
| Carl Ruoff | Roslyn Heights, NY | $138.89 | $348.46 |
| Arit E Esu | Waterbury, CT | $135.60 | $175.01 |
| Alex Yu-Chow Tse | Cary, NC | $132.13 | $770.21 |
| Sahar Takkouche | Nashville, TN | $125.00 | $627.34 |
| Samaa Lutfi | Detroit, MI | $125.00 | $305.85 |
| Rena Lambert | Allentown, PA | $124.74 | $1,928.10 |
| Gabriella M Baran | Wausau, WI | $124.66 | $124.66 |
| Michelle Rappaport | Seattle, WA | $123.78 | $419.38 |
| Barbara B Deshaw | Morristown, NJ | $123.61 | $137.35 |
| Ed Jerald Hendricks | Roseville, CA | $121.84 | $750.52 |
| Thomas Rees Checketts | Salt Lake City, UT | $121.84 | $461.76 |
Source: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019-2025, as reported to CMS by drug and device makers (published June 30, 2026).