Tari Ernst
Family Medicine · Wichita, KSNPI 1710948492
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 68 payments — averaging $18.25 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- GSK$246
- Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$174
- Merck$124
- Novo Nordisk$100
- Amgen$100
- Amarin Pharma, Inc.$80
- plus $416 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,241100%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| GSK | 6 | $246 |
| Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $174 |
| Merck | 15 | $124 |
| Novo Nordisk | 8 | $100 |
| Amgen | 1 | $100 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 5 | $80 |
| Sanofi Pasteur Inc. | 5 | $77 |
| AbbVie | 4 | $51 |
| AstraZeneca | 4 | $48 |
| Shire North American Group Inc | 3 | $46 |
| Arbor Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $24 |
| Eisai Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Therapeuticsmd, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $13 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 1 | $13 |
| Upsher-smith Laboratories LLC | 1 | $13 |
| Radius Health, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Bayer | 1 | $12 |
| Pfizer | 1 | $12 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC | 1 | $11 |
| Alfasigma USA, Inc. | 1 | $11 |
| Novartis | 1 | $11 |
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.
- SHINGRIX$124
How this compares
$1,241 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 1,469 family medicine providers in Kansas.
Other family medicine in Wichita
- Terry PolingWichita$24.2M
- Terry KleinWichita$5.9M
- Richard EgelhofWichita$4.1M
- Thomas KleinWichita$3.4M
- Brandon AllemanWichita$3M
- Tracy KleinWichita$2.7M
- William SimonWichita$1.1M
- Tana GoeringWichita$1.1M
- Gregory LakinWichita$897K
- Timothy KoehlerWichita$675K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.