Has Michael Coats, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $2,433 in general payments to Michael Coats, MD across 55 transactions between 2019–2025. Most Open Payments records nationally are meals worth under $20; a reported payment is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Does a payment mean Michael Coats, MD did something wrong?

No. Federal law requires drug and device makers to report almost every transfer of value to a physician, including a $14 sandwich at a lunch presentation. Consulting fees, research funding and royalties to device inventors are ordinary, legal parts of medicine. This site reports what was disclosed; it makes no allegation.

Where does this information about Michael Coats, MD come from?

The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Payments come from Open Payments, published under the Physician Payments Sunshine Act. Billing and prescribing figures come from the Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners and Part D Prescriber public use files for 2024.

Michael Coats, MD

Sleep Medicine · Post Falls, IDNPI 1942237045

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,805 of the $2,433 with a category attached, or 74.2%. 13 manufacturers reported payments, led by Inspire Medical Systems, Inc. at 49.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $816, 3.3 times the $248 reported in 2019.

$2,433in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 55 payments — averaging $44.23 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$1K
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$632
Harmony Biosciences LLC$197
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.$132
Resmed Corp$122
Lilly USA, LLC$35
plus $122 from 7 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$1506%
Food & beverage$1,80574%
Education$47820%

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
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	27	$1,193
Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.	10	$632
Harmony Biosciences LLC	6	$197
ZOLL Respicardia, Inc.	2	$132
Resmed Corp	1	$122
Lilly USA, LLC	2	$35
UCB, Inc.	1	$24
AstraZeneca	1	$23
GE HealthCare	1	$20
Novartis	1	$18
Axsome Therapeutics, Inc.	1	$14
Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc.	1	$13
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.	1	$11

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.

Inspire$346
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$168
XYWAV$150
XYREM$150
AirSense$122
remede System$117

How this compares

Too few sleep medicine providers in Idahoto place this figure against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$94,810

Medicare patients

711

Services billed

1,073

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
Modafinil	51	$2,832
Doxepin Hcl	45	$1,398
Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl	22	$598
Ropinirole Hcl	20	$597
Methylphenidate Hcl	21	$589
Zolpidem Tartrate	65	$378
Clonazepam	64	$318
Gabapentin	50	$249
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa	11	$240
Baclofen	12	$99
Diazepam	11	$23

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.