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

Joel Kertznus

Gastroenterology Hialeah, FL Medical Doctor

NPI 1487639308 CMS profile 249426

2140 W 68Th St, Suite 300, Hialeah, FL 33016

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General payments

$66,591

782 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, Joel Kertznus of Hialeah, FL is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $66,591 across 782 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 94th 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 $13,685 80
2024 General $3,880 67
2023 General $6,944 119
2022 General $6,953 122
2021 General $11,177 126
2020 General $2,860 97
2019 General $21,092 171

Beside peers

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

In program year 2025, general payments to Joel Kertznus were reported at $13,685. 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 Joel Kertznus Gastroenterology median Middle half National median
2019 $21,092 $417 $126–$1,100 $163
2020 $2,860 $224 $74–$624 $114
2021 $11,177 $352 $106–$1,054 $132
2022 $6,953 $448 $129–$1,270 $149
2023 $6,944 $533 $150–$1,390 $160
2024 $3,880 $605 $160–$1,606 $164
2025 $13,685 $639 $167–$1,700 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. AbbVie, Inc. $34,539 153 payments
  2. Allergan Inc. $12,516 55 payments
  3. Salix Pharmaceuticals, a division of Bausch Health US, LLC $11,316 242 payments
  4. Madrigal Pharmaceuticals $2,243 8 payments
  5. Janssen Biotech, Inc. $816 33 payments
  6. Gilead Sciences, Inc. $648 39 payments
  7. Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $610 28 payments
  8. Ardelyx, Inc. $507 27 payments
  9. Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. $489 22 payments
  10. Celgene Corporation $436 41 payments
  11. Other $2,470 134 payments

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Compensation for services other than consulting, including serving as faculty or as a speaker at a venue other than a continuing education program $42,700 20 payments
  2. Food and Beverage $12,538 742 payments
  3. Compensation for serving as faculty or as a speaker for a non-accredited and noncertified continuing education program $7,600 3 payments
  4. Consulting Fee $1,935 1 payment
  5. Travel and Lodging $1,594 12 payments
  6. Education $225 4 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. LINZESS $40,614 98 payments
  2. XIFAXAN $10,735 181 payments
  3. VIBERZI $6,212 24 payments
  4. REZDIFFRA $2,198 6 payments
  5. STELARA $788 32 payments
  6. MAVYRET $547 29 payments
  7. HUMIRA $533 27 payments
  8. IBSRELA $507 27 payments
  9. ZEPOSIA $436 41 payments
  10. CREON $435 30 payments
  11. Other $6,198 352 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 · 15 drugs

Part D claims

477

Median for Gastroenterology: 569

Drug cost

$186,155

Median for Gastroenterology: $104,976

Branded share of claims

38.4%

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
Creon Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 20 $56,539
Rezdiffra Resmetirom Brand 13 $49,804
Linzess Linaclotide Brand 44 $33,315
Zenpep Lipase/Protease/Amylase Brand 13 $20,758
Mesalamine Generic 19 $11,181
Sutab Sod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf Brand 25 $4,108
Ursodiol Generic 23 $3,936
Suprep Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates Brand 17 $1,607
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag Sulf Sodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates Brand 26 $1,513
Omeprazole Generic 113 $1,051

The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 15 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 · 17 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$20,446

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

80

Average age 72

Services billed

160

48 women, 32 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 44%
Diabetes 29%
Depression 26%
Ischemic heart disease 25%
Osteoporosis 20%
COPD 15%

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 25 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
LINZESS
  • AbbVie, Inc. $2,606
$2,606 44 —
VOQUEZNA
  • Phathom Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $168
$168 — —
OMVOH
  • Lilly USA, LLC $93
$93 — —
IQIRVO
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc $71
$71 — —
Sucraid
  • QOL Medical, LLC $68
$68 — —

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

782 reported

Every payment, record by record

Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.

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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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