Kathy Hershberger, PA
Physician Assistant · Topeka, KSNPI 1255332680
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 58 payments — averaging $23.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Organogenesis Inc.$254
- AbbVie$179
- Smith+Nephew$157
- Kerecis Limited$145
- Astellas Pharma US Inc$111
- Hydrofera LLC$74
- plus $465 from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,385100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Organogenesis Inc. | 7 | $254 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $179 |
| Smith+Nephew | 10 | $157 |
| Kerecis Limited | 9 | $145 |
| Astellas Pharma US Inc | 1 | $111 |
| Hydrofera LLC | 3 | $74 |
| Convatec Inc. | 3 | $73 |
| Mimedx Group, Inc. | 3 | $68 |
| Integra Lifesciences Corporation | 3 | $64 |
| Solventum Corporation | 3 | $54 |
| Melinta Therapeutics, LLC | 3 | $49 |
| Next Science LLC | 2 | $37 |
| Reprise Biomedical, Inc. | 1 | $30 |
| DJO, LLC | 1 | $28 |
| KCI USA, Inc. | 1 | $23 |
| Aroa Biosurgery Incorporated | 1 | $21 |
| Tactile Systems Technology Inc | 1 | $18 |
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
$1,385 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,016 physician assistant providers in Kansas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Doxycycline Monohydrate | 32 | $1,264 |
| Cephalexin | 29 | $441 |
| Ciprofloxacin Hcl | 23 | $337 |
| Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav | 20 | $312 |
| Clindamycin Hcl | 12 | $207 |
| Triamcinolone Acetonide | 15 | $197 |
| Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip | 13 | $152 |
| Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim | 14 | $138 |
| Prednisone | 12 | $26 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in Topeka
- Dylan TimmermannTopeka$19K
- Jay GrayTopeka$10K
- Sierra FergusonWichita$25K
- Heather HowellKansas City$16K
- Amy BrettmanShawnee$14K
- Ashton YoungersWichita$14K
- Anthony GunawanLakin$13K
- Therese SchrandtWichita$13K
- Mike HallWichita$13K
- Melissa WilkesFort Riley$13K
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.