Bernard Gersh
Cardiovascular Disease · Rochester, MNNPI 1245219237
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $36,825 of the $40,596 with a category attached, or 90.7%. 11 manufacturers reported payments, led by Kowa Research Institute, Inc. at 39.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $12,000 and has fallen 73.3% since, to $3,209 in 2025.
Across 34 payments — averaging $1194.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Kowa Research Institute, Inc.$16K
- Edwards Lifesciences$7K
- Philips North America LLC$4K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$3K
- Roche Diagnostics International Ltd$3K
- plus $5K from 5 others
Across 15 payments — averaging $1211.33 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.
- Medtronic$14K
- Shockwave Medical, Inc$3K
- Neovasc Medical Inc$1K
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$420
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$36,82591%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,9007%
- Food & beverage$8712%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kowa Research Institute, Inc. | 8 | $16,000 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 7 | $7,000 |
| Philips North America LLC | 4 | $3,700 |
| Shockwave Medical, Inc | 3 | $3,000 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 3 | $3,000 |
| Roche Diagnostics International Ltd | 1 | $2,900 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $2,500 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $1,625 |
| Medtronic | 3 | $352 |
| Biocardia, Inc. | 1 | $292 |
| Irhythm Technologies, Inc. | 1 | $227 |
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.
- (9520) IGT Devices Undivided$3,700
- Savaysa$3,000
- CLINICAL TRIAL PRODUCT$2,500
- CAMZYOS$1,625
- Zio monitor$227
- ZIO XT Patch$227
- Micra$162
- SelectSecure$144
How this compares
$40,596 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 451 cardiovascular disease providers in Minnesota.
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.
Other cardiovascular disease in Rochester
- Srijoy MahapatraRochester$1.2M
- Charanjit RihalRochester$478K
- Amir LermanRochester$465K
- Martha GroganRochester$330K
- Virend SomersRochester$262K
- Francisco Lopez-JimenezRochester$167K
- Ammar KilluRochester$139K
- Allan JaffeRochester$111K
- Robert McBaneRochester$110K
- Michael McGoonRochester$106K
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.