Bernadine Zirker
Nurse Practitioner · Sylvania, OHNPI 1881200798
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 23 payments — averaging $50.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.$318
- Novo Nordisk$206
- AstraZeneca$170
- Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$99
- Bayer$71
- Pfizer$71
- plus $230 from 6 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,165100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc. | 8 | $318 |
| Novo Nordisk | 3 | $206 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $170 |
| Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC | 1 | $99 |
| Bayer | 1 | $71 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $71 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $66 |
| Corcept Therapeutics | 1 | $50 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| La Jolla Pharmaceutical Company | 1 | $14 |
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.
How this compares
$1,165 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,700 nurse practitioner providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Daptomycin | 48 | $40,970 |
| ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium | 19 | $11,419 |
| Piperacillin-TazobactamPiperacillin Sodium/Tazobactam | 38 | $9,178 |
| CeftriaxoneCeftriaxone Sodium | 32 | $8,076 |
| MicafunginMicafungin Sodium | 18 | $6,629 |
| Cefepime Hcl | 36 | $5,652 |
| Meropenem | 11 | $5,073 |
| Vancomycin Hcl | 12 | $1,829 |
| Cephalexin | 65 | $1,081 |
| Cefazolin Sodium | 20 | $1,003 |
| Doxycycline Hyclate | 44 | $960 |
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 17 | $743 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 12 | $254 |
| Amoxicillin | 21 | $105 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other nurse practitioner in Sylvania
- Margaret BobonichCleveland$235K
- Mary GallagherWestlake$229K
- Sonia HissettCincinnati$179K
- Ashley TaylorNew Albany$107K
- Beth FaimanCleveland$101K
- Katherine AlexanderColumbus$99K
- Tiffany JonesCincinnati$99K
- Kate NewmanWestlake$78K
- Daniella GerySouth Euclid$73K
- Amy HazelCanton$63K
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.