Stephanie Herzog
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
Medical Device Business Services, Inc. accounts for 68.3% of it on its own, with 7 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,619, more than ten times the $16 reported in 2023.
Across 16 payments — averaging $131.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$1K
- Abbott$167
- Si-bone, Inc.$160
- Boston Scientific$159
- Johnson & Johnson$115
- Cerapedics Inc.$26
- plus $38 from 2 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$1,23159%
- Food & beverage$86941%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 7 | $1,434 |
| Abbott | 1 | $167 |
| Si-bone, Inc. | 1 | $160 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $159 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $115 |
| Cerapedics Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Aesculap, Inc. | 1 | $22 |
| Novartis | 1 | $16 |
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
$2,099 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 4,717 family providers in Pennsylvania.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Oxycodone Hcl | 38 | $178 |
| Methocarbamol | 32 | $176 |
| Methylprednisolone | 25 | $139 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other family in Erie
- Ashley SonneyErie$26K
- Alyssa MeighanErie$15K
- Kathleen ScholzPittsburgh$397K
- Shannon FitzgeraldAllison Park$370K
- Stephanie HarshbargerCamp Hill$317K
- Whitney BowlesFort Washington$253K
- Kweilynn GreenePittsburgh$139K
- Kami NestlerWilkes Barre$129K
- Bethany ThomasPhiladelphia$126K
- Margaret RosenzweigPittsburgh$89K
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.