Michael Gurney
Gastroenterology · Canton, OHNPI 1235134321
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.0% of the total across 624 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 29 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 23.3% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.
Across 624 payments — averaging $14.57 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- Johnson & Johnson$1K
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$616
- Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$543
- Bristol Myers Squibb$358
- plus $3K from 23 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$240%
- Food & beverage$9,00399%
- Education$671%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 153 | $2,122 |
| AbbVie | 128 | $1,703 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 60 | $1,156 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 44 | $616 |
| Daiichi Sankyo Inc. | 32 | $543 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 30 | $358 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 21 | $317 |
| Merck | 19 | $285 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 17 | $266 |
| Redhill Biopharma Inc. | 22 | $247 |
| Pfizer | 10 | $168 |
| Nestle Healthcare Nutrition Inc. | 14 | $166 |
| UCB, Inc. | 9 | $159 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 9 | $137 |
| Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc | 8 | $122 |
| Gilead | 8 | $115 |
| Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 8 | $111 |
| Evoke Pharma, Inc. | 7 | $104 |
| Vivus LLC | 5 | $78 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 5 | $64 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 4 | $53 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 2 | $43 |
| Sanofi | 2 | $37 |
| Amgen | 2 | $33 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $24 |
| Axonics, Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Albireo Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Organon | 1 | $15 |
| Bausch & Lomb, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$9,093 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 657 gastroenterology providers in Ohio.
Other gastroenterology in Canton
- Naim AlkhouriWestlake$1.9M
- Pierre GholamCleveland$1.6M
- Anita AfzaliCincinnati$798K
- Mohamed NaemWestlake$708K
- Kara de FeliceCincinnati$427K
- Tasos ManokasColumbus$411K
- Florian RiederCleveland$396K
- Allan PeckCincinnati$391K
- Dany RaadHighland Hills$387K
- Stanley CohenCleveland$338K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.