Has Samuel Kerns, MD received payments from drug or device companies?

Yes. Drug and device makers reported $885 in general payments to Samuel Kerns, MD across 26 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 Samuel Kerns, 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 Samuel Kerns, 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.

Samuel Kerns, MD

Otolaryngology · Painesville, OHNPI 1902075054

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 26 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Stryker at 42.4% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $297 and has fallen 72.7% since, to $81 in 2025. That places this record below the midpoint for otolaryngology clinicians in OH, where the typical reported total is $1,058.

$885in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $34.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

Stryker$375
GSK$170
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$131
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america$110
Medtronic$43
Acclarent, Inc$38
plus $18 from 1 others

What the payments were for

Food & beverage$885100%

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
Stryker	4	$375
GSK	12	$170
Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.	1	$131
KARL Storz Endoscopy-america	5	$110
Medtronic	2	$43
Acclarent, Inc	1	$38
Cochlear Americas	1	$18

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.

SCOPIS ENT$174
Inspire Upper Airway Stimulation System$131
ENTELLUS - ENTELLUS MEDICAL REINFORCED ANESTHESIA NEEDLE$128
ENTELLUS - MINIFESS TURBINATE FORCEPS$128
ENTELLUS - XPRESS ENT DILATION SYSTEM$128
ENTELLUS - FOCESS HD WIRELESS CAMERA$128

How this compares

$885 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 380 otolaryngology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024

$124,850

Medicare patients

570

Services billed

1,340

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
Azelastine Hcl	351	$6,607
Ipratropium Bromide	128	$5,129
Fluticasone Propionate	458	$4,655
Ofloxacin	57	$2,928
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth	27	$2,586
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil	58	$1,819
Dexamethasone Sodium Phosphate	52	$1,787
Budesonide	11	$1,473
Omeprazole	93	$1,432
Fluocinolone Acetonide	34	$767
Pilocarpine Hcl	12	$651
Famotidine	24	$261
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav	25	$243
Montelukast Sodium	11	$202
Pantoprazole Sodium	14	$201

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other otolaryngology in Painesville

Kenneth VitoPainesville$8K
Raj SindwaniCleveland$598K
Mark MehleCleveland$403K
Troy WoodardCleveland$392K
Oliver AdunkaColumbus$338K
Subinoy DasColumbus$142K
Sanjeet RangarajanCleveland$113K
Sumit BapnaDublin$95K
Boris KaranfilovDublin$82K
Alexander DonathCincinnati$64K

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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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