Has Michael Epstein received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $1,408,331 in general payments to Michael Epstein across 952 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 Epstein 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 Epstein 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 Epstein

Gastroenterology · Annapolis, MDNPI 1942238928

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,408,331in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 952 payments — averaging $1479.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$819K
Gilead$180K
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$141K
AbbVie$80K
Edwards Lifesciences$58K
Amgen$33K
plus $97K from 39 others

What the payments were for

Consulting fees$68,99743%
Speaking & faculty fees$68,23842%
Travel & lodging$13,4988%
Food & beverage$11,2747%
Education$760%

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
Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc	53	$819,271
Gilead	102	$180,018
Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	55	$140,859
AbbVie(2 entities)	188	$79,804
Edwards Lifesciences	88	$57,810
Amgen	53	$33,480
Pfizer	69	$25,450
Intercept Pharma Europe Ltd.	4	$20,993
E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.	11	$12,270
Redhill Biopharma Inc.	34	$10,320
Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc.	2	$8,158
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.	15	$3,806
Bristol Myers Squibb	17	$3,627
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC	61	$2,699
UCB Biosciences Inc.	1	$2,420
Ardelyx, Inc.	13	$2,160
Pharmacosmos Therapeutics Inc.	7	$1,500
Johnson & Johnson	39	$824
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.	36	$672
Merck	23	$362
QOL Medical, LLC	13	$302
Medtronic	3	$263
Sanofi	6	$144
Boston Scientific	1	$125
Concordia Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$119
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.	6	$97
Organon	5	$81
Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.	4	$74
Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.	5	$71
Novo Nordisk	1	$57
Romark Laboratories, LC	3	$53
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.	3	$51
Alfasigma USA, Inc.	3	$49
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.	4	$48
Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc.	2	$38
Dova Pharmaceuticals	3	$37
Currax Pharmaceuticals LLC	3	$35
Shionogi Inc	2	$29
Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc	1	$29
Micro-tech Endoscopy USA, Inc.	1	$28
Endogastric Solutions, Inc	1	$27
Intra-sana Laboratories	2	$23
Shire North American Group Inc	1	$19
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.	1	$18
Angiodynamics, Inc.	1	$12

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.

AVSOLA$32,939
INFLECTRA$17,167
ZEPOSIA$12,221
Talicia$9,910
XELJANZ$7,301
INJECTAFER$3,549
IBSRELA$1,875
PLENVU$1,650
Monoferric$1,385
EndoFlip$170
Sucraid$131
GENERAL - THERAPIES$125
Rinvoq$116

How this compares

$1,408,331 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 455 gastroenterology providers in Maryland.

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Most prescribed under Part D

Drug	Claims	Cost to plans & patients
Esomeprazole Magnesium	13	$1,932
Lansoprazole	13	$494
Lactated RingersRinger's Solution,lactated	26	$250
Pantoprazole Sodium	13	$163

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other gastroenterology in Annapolis

Raja TaunkAnnapolis$328K
Mark FlasarAnnapolis$168K
Kenolisa OnwuemeBaltimore$4.5M
Paul ThuluvathBaltimore$3.6M
Apurva ModiRockville$3.3M
Louis KormanChevy Chase$1.9M
Marcia CantoBaltimore$1.6M
Rudrajit RaiColumbia$1.4M
Natarajan RavendhranCatonsville$1.2M
Raymond CrossBaltimore$1.2M

See the full list for Maryland →

Where these figures come from

Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.

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