Elizabeth Herber, MD
Surgery · Kendallville, INNPI 1528227733
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $1,027 of the $1,354 with a category attached, or 75.8%. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 91.7% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $1,008 and has fallen 96.9% since, to $31 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for surgery clinicians in IN, where the typical reported total is $1,566.
Across 17 payments — averaging $79.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$1K
- Solventum Corporation$31
- Smith+Nephew$25
- Medtronic$16
- Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$14
- KCI USA, Inc.$13
- plus $12 from 1 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,02776%
- Food & beverage$32824%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 11 | $1,242 |
| Solventum Corporation | 1 | $31 |
| Smith+Nephew | 1 | $25 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $16 |
| Eagle Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Avanos Medical | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$1,008
How this compares
$1,354 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 524 surgery providers in Indiana.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 21 | $71 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 23 | $62 |
| Ibuprofen | 14 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other surgery in Kendallville
- Paul SzotekIndianapolis$2.4M
- Carlos Gonzalez RendonMunster$275K
- Anthony ZappiaCarmel$105K
- Jeremy Luedtkela Porte$102K
- Patricia ClarkFort Wayne$82K
- Erica GiblinCarmel$70K
- Paul BowldsGreenwood$69K
- Michael MillerIndianapolis$53K
- M ShabeebMunster$48K
- Sandra WischmeyerMichigan City$44K
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.