Gerald Bertiger, MD
Gastroenterology · Ephrata, PANPI 1265470140
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. accounts for 67.4% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest.
Across 66 payments — averaging $42.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$2K
- AbbVie$259
- Gilead$152
- Johnson & Johnson$118
- Shionogi Inc$71
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$52
- plus $264 from 10 others
Across 11 payments — averaging $16,918 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.
- Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$186K
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,37649%
- Food & beverage$1,43751%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 16 | $1,897 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 10 | $259 |
| Gilead | 4 | $152 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 14 | $118 |
| Shionogi Inc | 4 | $71 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $52 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 3 | $49 |
| Biofire Diagnostics, LLC | 1 | $33 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $30 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 2 | $26 |
| UCB, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Sanofi | 1 | $19 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Merck | 1 | $17 |
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.
- CLENPIQ$1,546
How this compares
$2,813 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 935 gastroenterology providers in Pennsylvania.
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 gastroenterology in Ephrata
- Miguel RegueiroPittsburgh$1.5M
- Adam PeytonAllentown$985K
- Shahin RahimianWaynesboro$592K
- Sandra El-HachemPittsburgh$472K
- Harshit KharaDanville$438K
- Kofi ClarkeHershey$426K
- Michael KochmanPhiladelphia$361K
- Gary LichtensteinPhiladelphia$342K
- Elie AounPittsburgh$323K
- Andrew TinsleyHershey$322K
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.