Bret Purcell
Infectious Disease · Frederick, MDNPI 1801808670
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, GE HealthCare.
Across 1 payment — averaging $407.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GE HealthCare$407
Across 10 payments — averaging $200,656 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.
- Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$1.9M
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$72K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$407100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GE HealthCare | 1 | $407 |
How this compares
$407 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 289 infectious disease providers in Maryland.
Other infectious disease in Frederick
- Robert RedfieldBaltimore$779K
- Luciana BorioBaltimore$671K
- Philip KrausePotomac$659K
- Mark SulkowskiBaltimore$240K
- Jonathan ZenilmanBaltimore$202K
- Phuong TrinhSilver Spring$196K
- Robert EdelmanBaltimore$125K
- Kjell WibergBaltimore$113K
- Wellington SunRockville$85K
- Michael PolisBethesda$70K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.