Merlin Fausett, MD
Maternal & Fetal Medicine · Missoula, MTNPI 1659403038
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by speaking fees: $4,070 of the $4,970 with a category attached, or 81.9%. Pfizer accounts for 81.9% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $3,815 and has fallen 86.0% since, to $533 in 2025.
Across 32 payments — averaging $155.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$4K
- Samsung HME America, Inc.$280
- Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.$183
- AbbVie$158
- Exeltis, USA Inc.$72
- Lilly USA, LLC$52
- plus $156 from 7 others
Across 1,144 payments — averaging $8247.09 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.
- Modernatx, Inc.$4.8M
- Pfizer$3.3M
- GSK$942K
- Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$207K
- Corium, LLC$102K
- Sanofi US Services Inc.$47K
- plus $70K from 3 others
What the payments were for
- Speaking & faculty fees$4,07082%
- Food & beverage$66713%
- Gifts$2335%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 2 | $4,070 |
| Samsung HME America, Inc. | 6 | $280 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 3 | $183 |
| AbbVie | 8 | $158 |
| Exeltis, USA Inc. | 3 | $72 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $52 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 2 | $34 |
| Roche Diagnostics Corporation | 2 | $29 |
| Organon | 1 | $26 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Hologic Sales And Service, LLC | 1 | $15 |
| Coopersurgical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
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
Too few maternal & fetal medicine providers in Montanato 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.
Other maternal & fetal medicine in Missoula
- Giovanni SistiBillings$479
- Kevin SaikiBozeman$23
- Dana DamronBillings$21
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.