Medical Doctor Program year 2020 Reported 2019–2020 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Cornelia Drees

Epilepsy Scottsdale, AZ Medical Doctor

NPI 1144265521 CMS profile 6655

13400 E Shea Blvd, Scottsdale, AZ 85259

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General payments

$0

None reported · program years 2019–2020

Research payments

$106,134

Paid to them · 71 records reported · program years 2019–2020

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Research they led as principal investigator

$524,244 paid to institutions, not to them · program years 2019–2025

Through program year 2020, Cornelia Drees of Scottsdale, AZ is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $0 across 0 general payments and $106,134 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $524,244 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.

General payments for this record sit in the 94th percentile of Epilepsy profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

2 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2020 Research $53,411 65
2019 Research $52,723 6

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 13 drugs

Part D claims

255

Median for Neurology: 833

Drug cost

$146,449

Median for Neurology: $202,670

Branded share of claims

45.5%

Median for Neurology: 25.9%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Xcopri Cenobamate Brand 40 $81,737
Nayzilam Midazolam Brand 14 $23,567
Briviact Brivaracetam Brand 12 $16,081
Lacosamide Generic 32 $12,209
Lamotrigine Er Lamotrigine Brand 26 $7,789
Levetiracetam Generic 25 $2,132
Levetiracetam Er Levetiracetam Brand 24 $1,237
Clobazam Generic 15 $619
Escitalopram Oxalate Generic 17 $331
Topiramate Generic 11 $238

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 13 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 13,695 Part D prescribers listed as Neurology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 45 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$87,530

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

323

Average age 72

Services billed

1,094

163 women, 160 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 74%
Arthritis 54%
Depression 35%
Ischemic heart disease 31%
Chronic kidney disease 30%
Atrial fibrillation 26%
Diabetes 25%
Cancer 22%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Records

71 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2020

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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