Sarah Merritt, PA
Physician Assistant · San Antonio, TXNPI 1225470560
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (58.4%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Si-bone, Inc. accounts for 85.1% of it on its own, with 12 other manufacturers making up the rest. Among physician assistant clinicians in TX 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.
Across 680 payments — averaging $80.21 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Si-bone, Inc.$46K
- Boston Scientific$3K
- Medtronic$2K
- Abbott$2K
- Nevro Corp.$348
- Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$163
- plus $426 from 7 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$31,84058%
- Speaking & faculty fees$5001%
- Travel & lodging$9,63418%
- Food & beverage$12,57023%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Si-bone, Inc. | 204 | $46,409 |
| Boston Scientific | 238 | $3,258 |
| Medtronic | 98 | $2,239 |
| Abbott | 125 | $1,700 |
| Nevro Corp. | 3 | $348 |
| Galderma Laboratories, L.p. | 4 | $163 |
| Intrinsic Therapeutics | 2 | $148 |
| MML US, Inc. | 1 | $116 |
| SPR Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $79 |
| Stryker | 1 | $36 |
| AbbVie | 1 | $21 |
| Heron Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| AstraZeneca | 1 | $12 |
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.
- IFUSE IMPLANT SYSTEM$33,284
- iFuse Implant$8,083
- INTELLIS ADAPTIVESTIM$428
- GENERAL PAIN MANAGEMENT$378
- Omnia$280
- BARRICAID ACD (ANNULAR CLOSURE DEVICE)$280
- PROCLAIM$263
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$250
- WaveWriter Alpha Prime 16$161
- SPECTRA WAVEWRITER$125
- INTELLIS$123
- ReActiv8$116
- Proclaim IPG$102
How this compares
$54,544 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 8,308 physician assistant providers in Texas.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Methocarbamol | 90 | $1,135 |
| Acetaminophen-CodeineAcetaminophen With Codeine | 62 | $1,059 |
| Methylprednisolone | 128 | $798 |
| Dexamethasone | 147 | $597 |
| Gabapentin | 55 | $512 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 15 | $301 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 30 | $164 |
| Tizanidine Hcl | 11 | $103 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other physician assistant in San Antonio
- Andrew PrattSan Antonio$87K
- Monica ChapmanSan Antonio$38K
- Lisa GarrisonSan Antonio$35K
- Anthony DerenciusSan Antonio$34K
- Alhashmin MurjiSan Antonio$29K
- Cynthia TrickettDallas$1.3M
- Kristine KuceraMelissa$797K
- Selina SantosAustin$543K
- Matthew BrunoMcKinney$538K
- Brooke HodnickSouthlake$479K
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.