Mark Vercel, DO
Rheumatology · Sioux Falls, SDNPI 1386902450
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.9%), travel and lodging and education — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Novartis accounts for 70.4% of it on its own, with 9 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $1,241 and has fallen 61.7% since, to $476 in 2025.
Across 35 payments — averaging $58.70 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Novartis$1K
- AbbVie$154
- Amgen$125
- GSK$75
- Pfizer$74
- Johnson & Johnson$67
- plus $114 from 4 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$92445%
- Food & beverage$1,06652%
- Education$643%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Novartis | 9 | $1,446 |
| AbbVie | 6 | $154 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 3 | $125 |
| GSK | 4 | $75 |
| Pfizer | 5 | $74 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $67 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $45 |
| Sandoz | 1 | $27 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $24 |
| Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC | 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.
- KYMRIAH$114
How this compares
Too few rheumatology providers in South Dakotato place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Actemra ActpenTocilizumab | 86 | $330,912 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 36 | $250,654 |
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 36 | $229,213 |
| Orencia ClickjectAbatacept | 32 | $197,941 |
| Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab | 25 | $166,471 |
| Cosentyx Sensoready PenSecukinumab | 11 | $153,217 |
| Cosentyx Unoready PenSecukinumab | 17 | $141,301 |
| RinvoqUpadacitinib | 22 | $132,796 |
| OtezlaApremilast | 24 | $107,468 |
| SimponiGolimumab | 12 | $68,612 |
| KevzaraSarilumab | 11 | $47,006 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 55 | $19,487 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 400 | $15,305 |
| Hadlima(Cf) PushtouchAdalimumab-Bwwd | 12 | $11,948 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 280 | $9,064 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieRinvoq | $154 | $132,79622 claims |
| AmgenOtezla | $125 | $107,46824 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonSimponi | $67 | $68,61212 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. There are too few rheumatology providers in South Dakotaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.
Other rheumatology in Sioux Falls
- Kelsey HolkesvikSioux Falls$5K
- Jenna King-SonaSioux Falls$4K
- Jessica SrstkaSioux Falls$3K
- Kara PetersenSioux Falls$3K
- Wais AfzalSioux Falls$1K
- Vivek JosephSioux Falls$698
- Gregory MummSioux Falls$599
- Joseph FanciulloSioux Falls$384
- Baker AlkhairiSioux Falls$312
- Eduardo Bonilla-TrejosSioux Falls$25
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.