David Talan, MD
Emergency Medicine · Iowa City, IANPI 1013946367
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $42,393 of the $47,534 with a category attached, or 89.2%. 4 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 37.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $16,375 and has fallen 92.1% since, to $1,300 in 2025. Among emergency medicine clinicians in IA 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 24 payments — averaging $1980.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AbbVie$18K
- Biofire Diagnostics, LLC$11K
- Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$10K
- GSK$8K
Across 4 payments — averaging $6721.88 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- AbbVie$27K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$42,39389%
- Speaking & faculty fees$2,0004%
- Travel & lodging$2,6246%
- Food & beverage$5181%
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 | 5 | $18,000 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 11 | $11,322 |
| Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $10,099 |
| GSK | 6 | $8,113 |
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.
- DALVANCE$18,000
- NUZYRA$10,080
- BIOFIRE RESPIRATORY PANEL 2.1$6,988
- BioFire FilmArray$4,303
How this compares
$47,534 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 360 emergency medicine providers in Iowa.
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.
Other emergency medicine in Iowa City
- Philip SpanheimerIowa City$5K
- Mohammad KotobIowa City$3K
- Daniel RundeIowa City$2K
- Sarah MillerIowa City$729
- Evangelia AssimacopoulosIowa City$303
- Thomas StriegelIowa City$269
- Katie Stadheim-LynchIowa City$233
- Alyssa GingrichIowa City$233
- Alee Hueffmeier-KunshierIowa City$233
- Nicholas PashinaIowa City$233
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.