Robert Ferguson
Gastroenterology · West Bloomfield, MINPI 1174694673
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 89 payments — averaging $15.31 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Gilead$389
- Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$185
- AbbVie$129
- Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$107
- Sanofi$95
- Ardelyx, Inc.$89
- plus $368 from 10 others
Across 3 payments — averaging $549.15 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.
- Eli Lilly$2K
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,34399%
- Education$201%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gilead | 34 | $389 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 13 | $185 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 7 | $129 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 5 | $107 |
| Sanofi | 5 | $95 |
| Ardelyx, Inc. | 5 | $89 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 5 | $72 |
| Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc | 3 | $67 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $63 |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc. | 3 | $54 |
| Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $27 |
| QOL Medical, LLC | 1 | $25 |
| Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Azurity Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Shionogi Inc | 1 | $14 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $14 |
How this compares
$1,363 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 497 gastroenterology providers in Michigan.
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.
Most prescribed under Part D
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| PremasolParenteral Amino Acid 10% No.7 | 20 | $187,986 |
| Humira PenAdalimumab | 14 | $153,957 |
| IntralipidFat Emulsions | 20 | $90,822 |
| LinzessLinaclotide | 74 | $47,906 |
| Ursodiol | 246 | $25,155 |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | 919 | $15,391 |
| Sucralfate | 375 | $15,178 |
| TrulancePlecanatide | 20 | $13,283 |
| Mesalamine ErMesalamine | 52 | $11,272 |
| Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole | 21 | $11,117 |
| MovantikNaloxegol Oxalate | 21 | $10,785 |
| Famotidine | 720 | $8,463 |
| Mesalamine DrMesalamine | 19 | $7,242 |
| Mesalamine | 14 | $6,849 |
| Omeprazole | 348 | $6,505 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| AbbVieLinzess | $129 | $47,90674 claims |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCTrulance | $185 | $13,28320 claims |
| Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab | $54 | $1,93212 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 40th percentile of 497 gastroenterology providers in Michigan.
Other gastroenterology in West Bloomfield
- Allan CoatesWyoming$5.9M
- Ronald FogelChesterfield$5.1M
- Stuart GordonDetroit$4.3M
- Jeffery BerinsteinAnn Arbor$3.3M
- Najm SoofiYpsilanti$2.6M
- Peter HigginsAnn Arbor$2.4M
- Partha NandiTroy$1.4M
- Frederick AskariAnn Arbor$1.4M
- Reena SalgiaDetroit$1.3M
- Kimberly BrownDetroit$1.1M
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.