Claudia Merkley
Acute Care · Evansville, INNPI 1174524573
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $4,378 of the $5,580 with a category attached, or 78.5%. 10 manufacturers reported payments, led by Atricure, Inc. at 53.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $2,422 and has fallen 57.0% since, to $1,042 in 2025. Among acute care clinicians in IN 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 105 payments — averaging $53.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Atricure, Inc.$3K
- Edwards Lifesciences$2K
- Abiomed$416
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$117
- Gilead$100
- Organogenesis Inc.$66
- plus $154 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,20222%
- Food & beverage$4,37878%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Atricure, Inc. | 26 | $3,009 |
| Edwards Lifesciences | 67 | $1,718 |
| Abiomed | 4 | $416 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 2 | $117 |
| Gilead | 1 | $100 |
| Organogenesis Inc. | 1 | $66 |
| Abbott | 1 | $51 |
| Zimmer Biomet | 1 | $45 |
| Urgo Medical North America, LLC | 1 | $29 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $29 |
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
$5,580 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 240 acute care providers in Indiana.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Colchicine | 13 | $626 |
| ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate | 52 | $371 |
| Mupirocin | 36 | $213 |
| Famotidine | 25 | $128 |
| Tamsulosin Hcl | 17 | $82 |
| Potassium Chloride | 28 | $75 |
| Furosemide | 37 | $28 |
| Metoprolol Tartrate | 11 | $23 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other acute care in Evansville
- Allyson MillsEvansville$5K
- Sara HahnEvansville$4K
- Tina SchulteEvansville$3K
- Irina KocherspergerEvansville$2K
- Caitlin MillerEvansville$2K
- Ashley HammerEvansville$2K
- Jolynn YoungEvansville$2K
- Kara FallsEvansville$1K
- Melissa LorenzJeffersonville$19K
- Amara Wright-TerryMunster$17K
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.