Has Antoine Sarkis, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $401 in general payments to Antoine Sarkis, MD across 12 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Antoine Sarkis, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Antoine Sarkis, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Antoine Sarkis, MD

Surgery · Post Falls, IDNPI 1235182213

Payments from drug & device makers

$401in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $33.38 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Solventum Corporation$111
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC$85
Merck$52
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.$36
Intuitive Surgical$36
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.$20
plus $61 from 4 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$401100%

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.

General payments by program year

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
Solventum Corporation	1	$111
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$85
Merck	2	$52
Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc.	2	$36
Intuitive Surgical	1	$36
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$20
Heron Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$18
Focal Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$15
Sanofi Pasteur Inc.	1	$15
Lilly USA, LLC	1	$13

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

PREVENA$111

How this compares

$401 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 136 surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$169,416

Medicare patients

427

Services billed

982

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
Esomeprazole Magnesium	26	$1,320
Omeprazole	135	$1,080
Pantoprazole Sodium	97	$852
Sucralfate	28	$427
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron	11	$262
Famotidine	28	$168
Procto-Med HcHydrocortisone	13	$100
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	20	$94
Tramadol Hcl	33	$65

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.