Douglas Schuerer, MD
Surgical Critical Care · Saint Louis, MONPI 1922024140
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 19 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Zimmer Biomet at 26.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $338, 2.3 times the $147 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for surgical critical care clinicians in MO, where the typical reported total is $1,053.
Across 19 payments — averaging $46.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Zimmer Biomet$238
- Kerecis Limited$157
- Boston Scientific$147
- Medtronic$89
- Polarityte, Inc.$54
- Convatec Inc.$45
- plus $154 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$885100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Zimmer Biomet | 4 | $238 |
| Kerecis Limited | 3 | $157 |
| Boston Scientific | 1 | $147 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $89 |
| Polarityte, Inc. | 1 | $54 |
| Convatec Inc. | 2 | $45 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 1 | $30 |
| Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| Polynovo North America LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $21 |
| Kls-martin L.p. | 1 | $18 |
| Acell, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 1 | $16 |
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
$885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 35 surgical critical care providers in Missouri.
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 surgical critical care in Saint Louis
- Grant BochicchioSaint Louis$38K
- Charlie SrivilasaSaint Louis$11K
- Zachary EnglertSaint Louis$9K
- Michael KeirseySaint Louis$3K
- Lindsay KrankerSaint Louis$3K
- Mark HoofnagleSaint Louis$2K
- Chen WangSaint Louis$1K
- Victoria CuiSaint Louis$1K
- Lauren SchmidtSaint Louis$1K
- Rahul SharmaSaint Louis$886
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.