Alicia Gerke, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Iowa City, IANPI 1053520759
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 1 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, United Therapeutics Corporation. That places this record below the midpoint for pulmonary disease clinicians in IA, where the typical reported total is $578.
Across 1 payment — averaging $90.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- United Therapeutics Corporation$90
Across 81 payments — averaging $2961.48 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- United Therapeutics Corporation$109K
- Biogen$50K
- Boehringer Ingelheim$30K
- Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$26K
- Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$17K
- Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co.kg$7K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$90100%
Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| United Therapeutics Corporation | 1 | $90 |
How this compares
$90 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 110 pulmonary disease providers in Iowa.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Tyvaso DpiTreprostinil | 90 | $2,113,074 |
| OpsumitMacitentan | 145 | $1,823,743 |
| AdempasRiociguat | 68 | $893,630 |
| OfevNintedanib Esylate | 61 | $814,391 |
| UptraviSelexipag | 37 | $720,108 |
| WinrevairSotatercept-Csrk | 39 | $591,151 |
| Ambrisentan | 99 | $187,879 |
| Orenitram ErTreprostinil Diolamine | 13 | $110,230 |
| Tadalafil | 57 | $24,124 |
| Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | 30 | $19,616 |
| EliquisApixaban | 30 | $19,048 |
| Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide | 42 | $15,975 |
| Sildenafil Citrate | 125 | $15,433 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 148 | $13,193 |
| Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr | 23 | $10,570 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other pulmonary disease in Iowa City
- Alejandro ComellasIowa City$54K
- Rolando Sanchez SanchezIowa City$12K
- Nabeel HamzehIowa City$9K
- Douglas HornickIowa City$8K
- Robert SmythIowa City$6K
- Joel KlineIowa City$5K
- Tahuanty PenaIowa City$2K
- Alan MoyIowa City$2K
- Kimberly Baker-El AbiadIowa City$831
- Bryan KrajicekCouncil Bluffs$470K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.