RxDoctor Payments Data

Samuel Bieligk, MD

Surgery · Lewiston, IDNPI 1982618112

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (33.8%), education and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 17 manufacturers reported payments, led by Intuitive Surgical at 49.9% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $6,207 and has fallen 84.9% since, to $940 in 2025. Among surgery clinicians in ID with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$22,070in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 121 payments — averaging $182.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$11K
  • TELA Bio, Inc.$10K
  • Davol Inc.$280
  • Smith+Nephew$226
  • AbbVie$124
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$118
  • plus $482 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,40011%
  • Travel & lodging$7,45134%
  • Food & beverage$5,18323%
  • Education$7,03632%

General payments by program year

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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.

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.

How this compares

$22,070 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 136 surgery providers in Idaho.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$115,988
Medicare patients
164
Services billed
526

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

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav14$313
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen23$84

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other surgery in Lewiston

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Where these figures come from

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