Has Cynthia Gaerke, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $329 in general payments to Cynthia Gaerke, MD across 16 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Cynthia Gaerke, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Cynthia Gaerke, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Cynthia Gaerke, MD

Internal Medicine · Marietta, OHNPI 1538184437

Payments from drug & device makers

$329in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $20.54 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

AbbVie$89
Johnson & Johnson$47
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)$45
Viatris Specialty LLC$43
AstraZeneca$33
Boston Scientific$23
plus $49 from 3 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$329100%

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
AbbVie	4	$89
Johnson & Johnson	2	$47
ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp)	3	$45
Viatris Specialty LLC	2	$43
AstraZeneca	1	$33
Boston Scientific	1	$23
Abiomed	1	$16
Novartis	1	$16
Merck	1	$16

How this compares

$329 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,428 internal medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$102,122

Medicare patients

365

Services billed

924

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	27	$32,794
JardianceEmpagliflozin	18	$26,681
Metoprolol Succinate	62	$718
Lisinopril	71	$393
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate	14	$389
Levothyroxine Sodium	29	$326
Spironolactone	37	$302
Cefdinir	32	$249
Rosuvastatin Calcium	18	$223
Atorvastatin Calcium	18	$180
Metoprolol Tartrate	32	$168
Dexamethasone	11	$154
Furosemide	23	$139
Pantoprazole Sodium	16	$127
Prednisone	47	$126

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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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.

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