RxDoctor Payments Data

Courtney Ferch, MD

Gastroenterology · Grand Rapids, MINPI 1316176282

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,701in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $57.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Olympus America Inc.$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$265
  • Medtronic$181
  • Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$136
  • Novo Nordisk$121
  • plus $430 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,66099%
  • Education$411%

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

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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.

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

$3,701 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 497 gastroenterology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$38,323
Medicare patients
159
Services billed
360

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab14$170,463
RinvoqUpadacitinib11$67,769
XifaxanRifaximin21$57,594
LinzessLinaclotide86$57,065
Mesalamine24$12,114
MotegrityPrucalopride Succinate14$10,930
Balsalazide Disodium21$5,251
Peg 3350-ElectrolyteSodium Chloride/Nahco3/Kcl/Peg201$4,974
Rabeprazole Sodium88$4,821
Budesonide DrBudesonide21$3,099
Omeprazole110$2,956
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf17$2,694
Azathioprine26$2,494
Lubiprostone16$1,649
Pantoprazole Sodium51$1,390

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
AbbVieRinvoq, Linzess$1,048$124,83497 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$34$57,59421 claims
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Motegrity$80$10,93014 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 55th percentile of 497 gastroenterology providers in Michigan.

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