Clark Gerhart
Surgery · Plains, PANPI 1265400204
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by education: $211,350 of the $317,275 with a category attached, or 66.6%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 99.6% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $114,338 and has fallen 99.3% since, to $757 in 2024. Among surgery clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.
Across 500 payments — averaging $634.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$316K
- Johnson & Johnson$478
- Merck$125
- Shire North American Group Inc$110
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$94
- Medtronic$87
- plus $358 from 12 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$54,12517%
- Travel & lodging$42,34113%
- Food & beverage$9,4133%
- Education$211,35067%
- Gifts$460%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 443 | $316,023 |
| Johnson & Johnson(2 entities) | 28 | $478 |
| Merck | 1 | $125 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 5 | $110 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $94 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $87 |
| Conmed Corporation | 3 | $85 |
| Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $41 |
| Baxter Healthcare | 2 | $39 |
| Teleflex LLC | 2 | $34 |
| Myriad Genetic Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 2 | $29 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| TELA Bio, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $15 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $15 |
| Covidien LP | 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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$294,276
- DA VINCI SP$17,225
- BRIDION$125
How this compares
$317,275 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,424 surgery providers in Pennsylvania.
Other surgery in Plains
- Andy KiserPittsburgh$1M
- Glenn SteeleDanville$698K
- Maher El ChaarAllentown$667K
- George EidPittsburgh$619K
- Paul CesanekAllentown$469K
- Irina YermilovPlymouth Meeting$315K
- Eric PauliHershey$202K
- Ariel AballayPittsburgh$198K
- Ann RogersHershey$198K
- Brett ChatmanPhiladelphia$178K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.