Who Paid My Doc
Steven Leichter
Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Columbus, GA Medical Doctor
NPI 1548302201 CMS profile 25073
2425 Brookstone Centre Pkwy, Columbus, GA 31904
General payments
$43,314
Research payments
$31,447
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$3,019,585
Through program year 2025, Steven Leichter of Columbus, GA is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $43,314 across 903 general payments and $31,447 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $3,019,585 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 92nd percentile of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $8,344 | 155 | |
| 2025 | Research | $1,750 | 2 | |
| 2024 | General | $9,815 | 140 | |
| 2023 | General | $2,210 | 88 | |
| 2023 | Research | $29,697 | 4 | |
| 2022 | General | $3,826 | 165 | |
| 2021 | General | $4,339 | 120 | |
| 2020 | General | $7,956 | 121 | |
| 2019 | General | $6,823 | 114 |
Beside peers
- Steven Leichter
- Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median
- Middle half of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Steven Leichter were reported at $8,344. Among 5,868 Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism profiles paid that year, the median was $507 and the middle half received between $135 and $1,838.
Show as a table
| Year | Steven Leichter | Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $6,823 | $494 | $123–$2,253 | $163 |
| 2020 | $7,956 | $335 | $85–$1,841 | $114 |
| 2021 | $4,339 | $398 | $88–$1,981 | $132 |
| 2022 | $3,826 | $364 | $88–$1,568 | $149 |
| 2023 | $2,210 | $420 | $113–$1,614 | $160 |
| 2024 | $9,815 | $440 | $121–$1,646 | $164 |
| 2025 | $8,344 | $507 | $135–$1,838 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 109 drugsPart D claims
8,011
Drug cost
$3,095,481
Branded share of claims
42.2%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jardiance Empagliflozin | Brand | 441 | $568,264 | |
| Ozempic Semaglutide | Brand | 269 | $420,653 | |
| Tymlos Abaloparatide | Brand | 91 | $323,433 | |
| Rybelsus Semaglutide | Brand | 148 | $241,502 | |
| Mounjaro Tirzepatide | Brand | 147 | $197,311 | |
| Forteo Teriparatide | Brand | 34 | $181,527 | |
| Trulicity Dulaglutide | Brand | 89 | $117,201 | |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100 Insulin Degludec | Brand | 155 | $93,385 | |
| Genotropin Somatropin | Brand | 30 | $83,738 | |
| Repatha Sureclick Evolocumab | Brand | 63 | $71,586 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 109 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 6,527 Part D prescribers listed as Endocrinology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 22 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$111,157
Medicare patients
437
Services billed
53,704
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| Diabetes | 67% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 56% | |
| Arthritis | 51% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 43% | |
| Osteoporosis | 26% | |
| Depression | 24% | |
| Heart failure | 18% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Injection, testosterone cypionate, 1 mg J1071 | Office | 20 | 51,970 | $930 |
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 28 products · payments 2024Two 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.
| Product | Paid by | Related payments | Part D claims | Part B services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| TZIELD |
|
$6,904 | — | — |
| Tymlos |
|
$461 | 91 | — |
| JARDIANCE |
|
$311 | 441 | — |
| Kerendia |
|
$232 | 29 | — |
| EVENITY |
|
$131 | — | — |
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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How to read this page
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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.