Vernon Hershberger, MD
Family Medicine · Akron, OHNPI 1205845500
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 544 payments — averaging $75.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Chiesi USA, Inc.$15K
- Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.$10K
- Myovant Sciences Inc.$4K
- GSK$2K
- AbbVie$2K
- AstraZeneca$1K
- plus $7K from 34 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$10,50597%
- Education$2803%
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.
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
$41,218 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| EliquisApixaban | 343 | $200,133 |
| RybelsusSemaglutide | 57 | $111,778 |
| MyrbetriqMirabegron | 138 | $78,076 |
| OzempicSemaglutide | 49 | $69,654 |
| Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate | 25 | $64,664 |
| FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol | 62 | $60,504 |
| JardianceEmpagliflozin | 64 | $59,940 |
| TrulicityDulaglutide | 42 | $43,637 |
| ProliaDenosumab | 24 | $42,167 |
| XareltoRivaroxaban | 46 | $29,402 |
| JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl | 33 | $26,033 |
| JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate | 42 | $21,030 |
| NuedextaDextromethorphan Hbr/Quinidine | 13 | $18,734 |
| Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec | 49 | $17,660 |
| EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan | 101 | $16,858 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs
These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerEliquis | $449 | $200,133343 claims |
| Novo NordiskRybelsus, Ozempic, Xultophy 100-3.6 | $1,434 | $186,526119 claims |
| Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna, Xarelto | $61 | $94,06671 claims |
| Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq | $965 | $78,076138 claims |
| AstraZenecaFarxiga, Breztri Aerosphere | $1,446 | $68,69476 claims |
| Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta | $198 | $66,09178 claims |
| MerckJanumet, Januvia | $162 | $47,06375 claims |
| Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity | $284 | $43,63742 claims |
| AmgenProlia | $1,142 | $42,16724 claims |
| Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta | $362 | $18,73413 claims |
| NovartisEntresto | $390 | $16,858101 claims |
| GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta | $2,273 | $16,82430 claims |
Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 95th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.
Other family medicine in Akron
- Michael ButcherCincinnati$18.3M
- William RandallKettering$7.5M
- Paul NugentCincinnati$4.9M
- Steve ChoiDayton$4.8M
- Martin SchearDayton$2.2M
- Rajesh DavitCincinnati$2M
- Kwabena OtengSpringdale$2M
- Blaise GattoMoraine$1.8M
- Cathy GreiweColumbus$1.4M
- Brian BeesleyColumbus$1.4M
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.