Brian Heeringa, MD
Surgery · Traverse City, MINPI 1497789010
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $64.04 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc.$2K
- Medtronic$1K
- Cardiovascular Systems Inc.$389
- Abbott$353
- Vascular Solutions, Inc.$300
- Tactile Systems Technology Inc$272
- plus $861 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$3005%
- Travel & lodging$2,11536%
- Food & beverage$3,41259%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 18 | $2,326 |
| Medtronic(2 entities) | 30 | $1,326 |
| Cardiovascular Systems Inc. | 7 | $389 |
| Abbott | 4 | $353 |
| Vascular Solutions, Inc. | 1 | $300 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $272 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 12 | $232 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $173 |
| Venclose Inc. | 2 | $102 |
| Reflow Medical Inc | 1 | $76 |
| Penumbra, Inc. | 2 | $73 |
| Convatec Inc. | 4 | $62 |
| Smith+Nephew | 2 | $48 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $33 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Bsn Medical Inc | 1 | $19 |
| Stimlabs LLC | 1 | $18 |
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.
- Venclose Maven Catheter$958
- VENOVO$866
- VenaSeal$575
- CATHETER - CLOSUREFAST$300
- Flexitouch Plus$272
- GENERAL VASCULAR INTERVENTION$153
- ENTRE$142
- Entre Plus$130
- Diamondback Peripheral$113
- Lutonix Drug Coated Balloon$104
How this compares
$5,828 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 16 | $18,189 |
| Diazepam | 12 | $7 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Traverse City
- Joel StrehlTraverse City$205K
- Ozanan MeirelesLansing$2.3M
- Amer AfanehDetroit$872K
- Robert BartlettAnn Arbor$859K
- Matthew FourmanMonroe$492K
- Bruce McIntoshRochester Hills$467K
- Marwan AbouljoudDetroit$446K
- Jon SchramZeeland$397K
- Bellal JosephDetroit$348K
- Robert LyonsYpsilanti$309K
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.