Has Derek Dirks, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,680 in general payments to Derek Dirks, MD across 38 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 Derek Dirks, 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 Derek Dirks, 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.

Derek Dirks, MD

Surgery · Post Falls, IDNPI 1427476225

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

12 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medical Device Business Services, Inc. at 42.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $1,589 and has fallen 96.0% since, to $63 in 2025.

$2,680in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 38 payments — averaging $70.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
Stryker$456
Johnson & Johnson$268
Intuitive Surgical$246
Medtronic$242
Boston Scientific$115
plus $207 from 6 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$1,33050%
Food & beverage$1,35050%

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
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.	5	$1,145
Stryker	6	$456
Johnson & Johnson	6	$268
Intuitive Surgical	4	$246
Medtronic	8	$242
Boston Scientific	1	$115
Baxter Healthcare	2	$75
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	2	$42
Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated	1	$31
Hologic Sales And Service, LLC	1	$22
Merck	1	$19
Baudax Bio Inc.	1	$18

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

$2,680 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 136 surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$97,738

Medicare patients

300

Services billed

598

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
Sucralfate	18	$283
Omeprazole	34	$267

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.