RxDoctor Payments Data

Jon Schram, MD

Surgery · Zeeland, MINPI 1053335018

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — speaking fees (59.0%), consulting fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Teleflex LLC accounts for 82.1% of it on its own, with 17 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $97,169, 6.8 times the $14,204 reported in 2019. Among surgery clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$260,523in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 317 payments — averaging $821.84 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Teleflex LLC$214K
  • Standard Bariatrics, Inc.$30K
  • Johnson & Johnson$8K
  • Baxter Healthcare$2K
  • Heron Therapeutics, Inc.$2K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$2K
  • plus $2K from 12 others
$136,845in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $7202.37 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.

  • Ethicon Endo-surgery Inc.$137K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$61,92724%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$153,61359%
  • Travel & lodging$37,82115%
  • Food & beverage$5,2972%
  • Education$2000%
  • Other$1,6651%

General payments by program year

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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.

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

$260,523 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,081 surgery providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$23,383
Medicare patients
49
Services billed
76

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Metoclopramide Hcl11$63

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Zeeland

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