MS. Tara Dale Branch, CNP

Payments from drug and device companies, 2025

Drug and device makers are required by federal law (the Physician Payments Sunshine Act) to report what they pay or give to clinicians, and CMS publishes the reports as Open Payments. This is the 2025 program year. A report is a record of a payment, not an allegation of anything, and many are small items such as meals. Only general payments are listed here; research payments and ownership or investment interests are reported separately by CMS and are not shown.

Each amount is the sum of what companies reported for that kind of payment in 2025, rounded to the dollar. Not all of it is income to the clinician: a meal is not a fee, a charitable contribution goes to a charity, and a royalty or an acquisition payment is not a salary.

Check a report, or dispute one, at the source in CMS’s own tool, Open Payments. Corrections go through CMS’s dispute process. This site removes a home address on request and asks for no proof, because that is privacy; it will not remove an accurate payment report on request, because that is a statutory public disclosure.

Colleagues at Summa Physicians LLC

Clinicians the CMS Doctors & Clinicians file lists under the same group practice. CMS counts 688 clinicians in the practice; 12 are shown here.

• Amber Alicia Acierno, AGACNP, RN, BSN Registered Nurse · Akron, OH
• Heather Baker, AGACNP Acute Care Nurse Practitioner · Canton, OH
• Tyler Bischof, DO Sports Medicine (Family Medicine) Physician · Akron, OH
• Jonathan Buggey, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Akron, OH
• Brittany Conner, PA-C Medical Physician Assistant · Akron, OH
• Robert B Gerber, MD Pulmonary Disease Physician · Cleveland, OH
• Dr. Lynn M Hamrich, MD Family Medicine Physician · Akron, OH
• Dr. Evan Cecil Howe, MD, PHD, MPH Family Medicine Physician · Jefferson, OH
• Yangyang Hu, CNP Adult Health Nurse Practitioner · Stow, OH
• MS. Tiffany McCann, DO Critical Care Medicine (Internal Medicine) Physician · Akron, OH
• Adrian Alonso Ochoa, MD Nephrology Physician · Akron, OH
• Dr. Michael A Pelini, MD Cardiovascular Disease Physician · Akron, OH

Other providers in Akron

• Dr. Stephen J Andrews, MD

  Individual Gynecologic Oncology Physician · NPI 1255328845

  161 N Forge St Ste 298, Akron, OH 44304-1468 · (330) 379-3514

• Gynecologic Oncologists of Northeastern Ohio, Inc

  Organization Gynecologic Oncology Physician · NPI 1265528335

  224 W Exchange St Ste #140, Akron, OH 44302-1704 · (330) 344-6041

• Dr. Michael P. Hopkins, MD

  Individual Gynecologic Oncology Physician · NPI 1659376069

  224 W Exchange St Ste 140, Akron, OH 44302-1704 · (330) 344-6041

• John R. Karlen, MD

  Individual Gynecologic Oncology Physician · NPI 1619972031

  224 W Exchange St Ste 420, Akron, OH 44302-1704 · (330) 344-6041