Heiko Pohl, MD
Gastroenterology · White River Junction, VTNPI 1356465348
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,820 of the $5,047 with a category attached, or 95.5%. 6 manufacturers reported payments, led by Exact Sciences at 49.0% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $4,309 and has fallen 84.5% since, to $670 in 2025.
Across 8 payments — averaging $630.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Exact Sciences$2K
- Pentax Of America, Inc.$2K
- Olympus Corporation$670
- Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.$84
- Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$38
- Apollo Endosurgery US Inc$30
Across 23 payments — averaging $10,068 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.
- Boston Scientific$178K
- Aries Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$54K
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$4,82095%
- Food & beverage$2275%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Exact Sciences | 2 | $2,474 |
| Pentax Of America, Inc. | 1 | $1,750 |
| Olympus Corporation | 1 | $670 |
| Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc. | 1 | $84 |
| Olympus Corporation Of The Americas | 2 | $38 |
| Apollo Endosurgery US Inc | 1 | $30 |
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
$5,047 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 25 gastroenterology providers in Vermont.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Omeprazole | 14 | $123 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other gastroenterology in White River Junction
- Joseph AndersonWhite River Junction$65
- Philip GinsburgRutland$553K
- Peter MosesBurlington$8K
- Cory HalliburtonColchester$7K
- David SchwartzColchester$3K
- David FurmanBennington$3K
- Michael UzerBurlington$2K
- Jason HeffleyBurlington$1K
- Ibrahim AbubakarBurlington$990
- Shruti KhuranaBurlington$236
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.