Medical Doctor Program year 2025 Reported 2019–2025 Source: CMS Open Payments, 2026 publication

Gregory Merritt

Gastroenterology Kansas City, MO Medical Doctor

NPI 1548266174 CMS profile 296311

2330 E Meyer Blvd, Suite 301, Kansas City, MO 64132

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General payments

$16,470

813 records reported · program years 2019–2025

Research payments

$0

Paid to them · None reported · program years 2019–2025

Ownership & investment interest

$0

None reported

Through program year 2025, Gregory Merritt of Kansas City, MO is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $16,470 across 813 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them.

No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them.

General payments for this record sit in the 87th percentile of Gastroenterology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.

By program year

7 rows
Year Kind Relative to this record's peak year Amount Records
2025 General $2,891 146
2024 General $3,574 172
2023 General $4,251 211
2022 General $2,907 182
2021 General $1,580 91
2020 General $68 3
2019 General $1,201 8

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Gregory Merritt
  • Gastroenterology median
  • Middle half of Gastroenterology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Gregory Merritt were reported at $2,891. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.

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Year Gregory Merritt Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $1,201 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $68 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $1,580 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $2,907 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $4,251 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $3,574 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $2,891 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $2,932 180 payments
  2. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $2,203 129 payments
  3. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $1,818 97 payments
  4. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $1,444 54 payments
  5. QOL Medical, LLC $1,009 34 payments
  6. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $940 6 payments
  7. Ardelyx, Inc. $644 38 payments
  8. Celgene Corporation $613 54 payments
  9. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corporation $586 32 payments
  10. Pfizer Inc. $583 32 payments
  11. Other $3,698 157 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Food and Beverage $15,682 808 payments
  2. Travel and Lodging $743 3 payments
  3. Education $46 2 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. XIFAXAN $1,843 107 payments
  2. STELARA $1,332 46 payments
  3. ENTYVIO $1,192 63 payments
  4. RINVOQ $1,183 66 payments
  5. autoLog $940 6 payments
  6. SKYRIZI $802 43 payments
  7. LINZESS $712 46 payments
  8. ZEPOSIA $680 53 payments
  9. IBSRELA $644 38 payments
  10. CREON $594 39 payments
  11. Other $10,479 510 payments

A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.

Prescribing to Medicare patients

Part D · data year 2024 · 35 drugs

Part D claims

1,590

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$368,735

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

29.8%

Median for Gastroenterology: 31.8%

Drugs this doctor was counted under in Medicare Part D 2024, by drug cost
Drug Type Relative to their largest Claims Drug cost
Xifaxan Rifaximin Brand 28 $93,413
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 39 $82,909
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 54 $44,781
Zenpep Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 13 $40,935
Mesalamine Generic 71 $27,396
Sutab Sod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf Brand 108 $17,481
Dexlansoprazole Dr Dexlansoprazole Brand 23 $8,173
Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate Brand 14 $7,596
Pantoprazole Sodium Generic 370 $5,362
Balsalazide Disodium Generic 42 $4,553

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 35 counted.

Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 14,294 Part D prescribers listed as Gastroenterology; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 37 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$113,777

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

511

Average age 73

Services billed

1,158

288 women, 223 men among their patients

Share of this provider's Medicare patients with each condition
Condition among their Medicare patients Relative to the most common Share of patients
High blood pressure 75%
Arthritis 47%
Diabetes 37%
Ischemic heart disease 36%
Chronic kidney disease 35%
Depression 32%
Atrial fibrillation 29%
Heart failure 27%

Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.

Payments and prescribing

First 5 of 26 products · payments 2024

Two separate records. The payments come from Open Payments and the claims from Medicare. They are set side by side because they name the same product; they do not show that a payment affected a prescription.

Products this doctor was paid in connection with in 2024, beside Medicare claims for the same product
Product Paid by Related payments Part D claims Part B services
XIFAXAN
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $480
$480 28 —
ENTYVIO
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $258
$258 — —
Sucraid
  • QOL Medical, LLC $249
$249 — —
OMVOH
  • Lilly USA, LLC $246
$246 — —
RINVOQ
  • AbbVie, Inc. $206
$206 — —

A dash means Medicare published no figure for this doctor and product — fewer than 11 claims, or the product is not covered under that part — which is not the same as none. Payments are general payments only; one that names several products is split evenly between them, so an amount is payments related to the product, not money paid for it.

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Records

813 reported

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What this means

U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.

An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.

Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.

Provenance

Source: CMS Open Payments · through program year 2025

Data current to program year 2025, from CMS's 2026 publication.

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