Physician Assistant Program year 2025 Reported 2021–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Michael Hessel

Physician Assistant Saint Louis, MO Physician Assistant

NPI 1902312259 CMS profile 10622096

520 S Elm Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63119

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General payments

$18,728

1,071 records reported · program years 2021–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2021–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Michael Hessel of Saint Louis, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $18,728 across 1,071 general payments and $0 in research payments paid 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.

General payments for this record sit in the 99th percentile of Physician Assistant profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

5 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $3,624 189
2024 General $3,757 196
2023 General $4,046 213
2022 General $3,899 231
2021 General $3,402 242

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Michael Hessel
  • Physician Assistant median
  • Middle half of Physician Assistant
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Hessel were reported at $3,624. Among 68,903 Physician Assistant profiles paid that year, the median was $184 and the middle half received between $57 and $620.

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Year Michael Hessel Physician Assistant median Middle half National median
2019 $0 $34 $17–$122 $163
2020 $0 $33 $16–$78 $114
2021 $3,402 $132 $37–$438 $132
2022 $3,899 $155 $48–$522 $149
2023 $4,046 $167 $52–$557 $160
2024 $3,757 $178 $55–$600 $164
2025 $3,624 $184 $57–$620 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $3,161 183 payments
  2. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $2,976 167 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $2,738 173 payments
  4. Pfizer Inc. $1,575 107 payments
  5. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $1,498 95 payments
  6. UCB, Inc. $1,392 68 payments
  7. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $889 43 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $748 43 payments
  9. GlaxoSmithKline, LLC. $740 49 payments
  10. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $301 15 payments
  11. Other $2,711 128 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $18,219 1,062 payments
  2. Education $334 8 payments
  3. Consulting Fee $175 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2021–2025
  1. RINVOQ $2,398 138 payments
  2. TREMFYA $2,028 93 payments
  3. SIMPONI ARIA $1,510 103 payments
  4. XELJANZ $1,480 101 payments
  5. REMICADE $906 72 payments
  6. COSENTYX $905 56 payments
  7. SAPHNELO $835 40 payments
  8. STELARA $811 66 payments
  9. Cimzia $740 40 payments
  10. BENLYSTA $740 49 payments
  11. Other $10,630 660 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 24 drugs

Part D claims

1,780

Median for Physician Assistant: 241

Drug cost

$743,835

Median for Physician Assistant: $4,110

Branded share of claims

29%

Median for Physician Assistant: 19.6%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Humira(Cf) Pen Adalimumab Brand 24 $246,987
Otezla Apremilast Brand 34 $161,541
Rinvoq Upadacitinib Brand 25 $161,179
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens) Secukinumab Brand 11 $80,191
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 11 $47,731
Leflunomide Generic 125 $7,612
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate Generic 301 $7,356
Methotrexate Methotrexate Sodium Brand 374 $7,351
Savella Milnacipran Hcl Brand 11 $6,544
Azathioprine Generic 99 $4,034

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 24 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 114,276 Part D prescribers listed as Physician Assistant; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 33 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
TREMFYA
$556 — —
RINVOQ
$468 25 —
COSENTYX
$332 11 —
SKYRIZI
$244 — —
XELJANZ
$220 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

1,071 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 2025

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

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