Michelle Scharnott, DO
Hospice and Palliative Medicine · Saginaw, MINPI 1508060310
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $391 of the $455 with a category attached, or 85.8%. 8 manufacturers reported payments, led by Bayer at 32.7% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $145 and has fallen 85.2% since, to $22 in 2023.
Across 18 payments — averaging $25.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Bayer$149
- Novo Nordisk$128
- Pfizer$52
- E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$36
- Amgen$33
- Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$22
- plus $35 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$39186%
- Education$6514%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Bayer | 3 | $149 |
| Novo Nordisk | 5 | $128 |
| Pfizer | 3 | $52 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 2 | $36 |
| Amgen(2 entities) | 2 | $33 |
| Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $18 |
| Sanofi | 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.
- Adempas$112
How this compares
$455 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 58 hospice and palliative medicine providers in Michigan.
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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 hospice and palliative medicine in Saginaw
- Ryan StringerGrand Rapids$4K
- Gretchen RoeGrand Rapids$2K
- Gerald HarrimanMuskegon$1K
- Lameitre LockhartSouthfield$1K
- Mark StidHolland$1K
- Melissa DuimstraMuskegon$1K
- Simin BegGrand Rapids$847
- David SchwartzenfeldRochester Hills$826
- Zohra KhanBloomfield Hills$495
- Jaya GuptaDetroit$459
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.