Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Steven Baak

Rheumatology Bridgeton, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1598738262 CMS profile 117960

3440 De Paul Ln, Suite 113, Bridgeton, MO 63044

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General payments

$21,134

1,008 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Steven Baak of Bridgeton, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $21,134 across 1,008 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 83rd percentile of Rheumatology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $18 1
2024 General $1,423 94
2023 General $8,287 172
2022 General $3,131 168
2021 General $2,383 148
2020 General $2,174 132
2019 General $3,717 293

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Steven Baak
  • Rheumatology median
  • Middle half of Rheumatology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Steven Baak were reported at $18. Among 4,454 Rheumatology profiles paid that year, the median was $903 and the middle half received between $171 and $2,775.

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Year Steven Baak Rheumatology median Middle half National median
2019 $3,717 $744 $153–$2,687 $163
2020 $2,174 $462 $98–$2,027 $114
2021 $2,383 $531 $101–$2,153 $132
2022 $3,131 $627 $125–$2,303 $149
2023 $8,287 $741 $145–$2,524 $160
2024 $1,423 $830 $166–$2,660 $164
2025 $18 $903 $171–$2,775 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation $6,668 108 payments
  2. AbbVie, Inc. $2,088 134 payments
  3. Amgen Inc. $1,854 115 payments
  4. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,792 103 payments
  5. Pfizer Inc. $1,705 158 payments
  6. E.R. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. $1,132 65 payments
  7. UCB, Inc. $1,115 68 payments
  8. Lilly USA, LLC $861 47 payments
  9. Celgene Corporation $315 18 payments
  10. AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP $279 15 payments
  11. Other $3,324 177 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $15,916 1,002 payments
  2. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $5,000 1 payment
  3. Education $202 4 payments
  4. Travel and Lodging $15 1 payment
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. COSENTYX Dermatology $5,779 55 payments
  2. XELJANZ $1,574 147 payments
  3. RINVOQ $1,301 82 payments
  4. ORENCIA $1,113 64 payments
  5. Cimzia $1,053 67 payments
  6. TREMFYA $1,030 50 payments
  7. SIMPONI ARIA $993 55 payments
  8. HUMIRA $973 63 payments
  9. COSENTYX Immunology $938 55 payments
  10. TALTZ $861 47 payments
  11. Other $8,847 533 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 · 78 drugs

Part D claims

15,095

Median for Rheumatology: 1,511

Drug cost

$7,684,201

Median for Rheumatology: $1,139,948

Branded share of claims

23.2%

Median for Rheumatology: 28.8%

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 165 $1,770,387
Enbrel Sureclick Etanercept Brand 182 $1,376,607
Taltz Autoinjector Ixekizumab Brand 68 $556,552
Orencia Clickject Abatacept Brand 80 $466,944
Cimzia (2 Pack) Certolizumab Pegol Brand 71 $458,963
Skyrizi Pen Risankizumab-Rzaa Brand 22 $456,994
Tremfya Guselkumab Brand 31 $423,319
Kevzara Sarilumab Brand 81 $347,904
Actemra Actpen Tocilizumab Brand 92 $347,220
Cosentyx Sensoready Pen Secukinumab Brand 31 $286,398

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 78 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 5,224 Part D prescribers listed as Rheumatology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 47 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$2,229,149

Of which drugs: $1,877,050

Medicare patients

556

Average age 72

Services billed

199,739

377 women, 179 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 75%
Arthritis 75%
Diabetes 31%
Depression 31%
Ischemic heart disease 28%
Chronic kidney disease 25%
COPD 23%
Heart failure 20%
Drugs given in the clinic that this provider billed Medicare Part B for
Drug given in the clinic Where Patients Services Paid by Medicare
Injection, golimumab, 1 mg, for intravenous use J1602 Office 129 84,912 $785,037
Injection, abatacept, 10 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0129 Office 30 12,075 $399,938
Injection, certolizumab pegol, 1 mg (code may be used for medicare when drug administered under the direct supervision of a physician, not for use when drug is self administered) J0717 Office 20 45,600 $164,520
Injection, tocilizumab, 1 mg J3262 Office 15 35,128 $163,422
Injection, secukinumab, intravenous, 1 mg J3247 Office 16 8,625 $113,177
Injection, infliximab, excludes biosimilar, 10 mg J1745 Office 14 2,910 $72,549
Hyaluronan or derivative, euflexxa, for intra-articular injection, per dose J7323 Office 15 67 $6,146
Injection, triamcinolone acetonide, not otherwise specified, 10 mg J3301 Office 102 719 $479

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.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 21 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
COSENTYX
$269 60 —
RINVOQ
$181 — —
Enbrel
$179 205 —
TREMFYA
$158 31 —
TALTZ
$76 68 —

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

1,008 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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