RxDoctor Payments Data

Kurt Bernsdorff, MD

Gastroenterology · Sylvania, OHNPI 1457348799

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,779in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 93 payments — averaging $19.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$833
  • Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.$236
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$166
  • Pfizer$122
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$112
  • QOL Medical, LLC$55
  • plus $256 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,73097%
  • Education$493%

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

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

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

$1,779 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

See all gastroenterology providers in Ohio

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$293,736
Medicare patients
410
Services billed
10,949

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
StelaraUstekinumab12$340,580
Mesalamine50$50,258
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase26$42,445
XifaxanRifaximin13$38,996
LinzessLinaclotide56$36,034
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase11$33,027
KonvomepOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate12$18,359
Mesalamine ErMesalamine45$17,567
Pantoprazole Sodium933$13,285
Omeprazole361$5,024
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole20$4,719
Sucralfate65$4,279
Balsalazide Disodium21$3,885
Esomeprazole Magnesium43$2,761
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates44$2,698

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
Johnson & JohnsonStelara$41$340,58012 claims
AbbVieCreon, Linzess$833$78,47982 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$112$38,99613 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.

Other gastroenterology in Sylvania

See the full list for Ohio

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →