Has Richard Burke, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $17,316 in general payments to Richard Burke, MD across 297 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 Richard Burke, 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 Richard Burke, 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.

Richard Burke, MD

Anesthesiology · Traverse City, MINPI 1427039072

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $13,165 of the $17,316 with a category attached, or 76.0%. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Boston Scientific at 45.9% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,423, 6.9 times the $787 reported in 2019. Among anesthesiology clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,316in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 297 payments — averaging $58.30 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Boston Scientific$8K
Abbott$3K
Spinal Simplicity, LLC$2K
Nevro Corp.$1K
Medtronic$805
Stryker$717
plus $2K from 9 others

What the payments were for

Travel & lodging$4,15124%
Food & beverage$13,16576%

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
Boston Scientific	126	$7,955
Abbott	89	$3,194
Spinal Simplicity, LLC	13	$1,505
Nevro Corp.	22	$1,328
Medtronic(2 entities)	10	$805
Stryker	8	$717
Vertos Medical, Inc.	14	$535
Saluda Medical Americas, Inc.	4	$417
Nalu Medical, Inc.	2	$235
Si-bone, Inc.	2	$161
Globus Medical	2	$156
Relievant Medsystems, Inc.	2	$139
SPR Therapeutics, Inc	1	$105
Intrinsic Therapeutics	1	$40
Piramal Critical Care	1	$25

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.

HA MINUTEMAN G3-R$1,320
LIBERTY SI$1,192
PATRIOT SI$1,048
Intracept$1,033
PROCLAIM$1,010
SUPERION$927
GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$836
VERTIFLEX SUPERION$687
mild Device Kit$483
Senza Spinal Cord Stimulation System$483
Omnia$345
Nalu Neurostimulation System$235
SPINEJACK$214
ETERNA$161
iFuse Implant$147
SYNCHROMEDII$142
Senza$140
WAVEWRITER ALPHA$117
Evoke SCS$115
OPTABLATE$109

How this compares

$17,316 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,299 anesthesiology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$243,432

Medicare patients

243

Services billed

5,989

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
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen	88	$1,571
Cephalexin	166	$1,214
Clindamycin Hcl	42	$430
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen	27	$403
Gabapentin	34	$348
Triazolam	48	$187
Methylprednisolone	13	$54
Diazepam	38	$26

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other anesthesiology in Traverse City

Neal DuggalAnn Arbor$206K
John PappasRoyal Oak$112K
Jay GlobersonSouthfield$79K
David HovordAnn Arbor$48K
Birgete WebbGrosse Pointe Park$28K
Timothy KwiecienMarshall$27K
Matthew McCordLansing$25K
Zachary WeinermanDetroit$24K
Bryan TomaRoyal Oak$22K
Patrick McKearneyGrand Rapids$21K

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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.

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