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

Merlin Wehling

Anesthesiology Kearney, NE Medical Doctor

NPI 1023122272 CMS profile 1075736

804 22Nd Ave, Ste 100, Kearney, NE 68845

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General payments

$2,684,375

25 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, Merlin Wehling of Kearney, NE is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $2,684,375 across 25 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 99th percentile of Anesthesiology 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 $6,077 5
2024 General $68 1
2023 General $70,024 4
2022 General $26,181 6
2021 General $280,148 6
2020 General $2,301,858 2
2019 General $19 1

Beside peers

Year by year, beside peers General payments · among profiles paid that year
  • Merlin Wehling
  • Anesthesiology median
  • Middle half of Anesthesiology
  • National median

In program year 2025, general payments to Merlin Wehling were reported at $6,077. Among 18,548 Anesthesiology profiles paid that year, the median was $58 and the middle half received between $26 and $153.

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Year Merlin Wehling Anesthesiology median Middle half National median
2019 $19 $72 $23–$151 $163
2020 $2,301,858 $36 $17–$120 $114
2021 $280,148 $49 $21–$135 $132
2022 $26,181 $52 $22–$144 $149
2023 $70,024 $53 $23–$143 $160
2024 $68 $55 $25–$150 $164
2025 $6,077 $58 $26–$153 $169

Breakdown

Who paid General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Medtronic Vascular, Inc. $2,301,858 2 payments
  2. Medtronic, Inc. $382,371 18 payments
  3. Abiomed $68 1 payment
  4. Baxter Healthcare $29 1 payment
  5. Chiesi USA, Inc. $19 1 payment
  6. Vyaire Medical, Inc. $18 1 payment
  7. Pacira Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $12 1 payment

Every payment, record by record

What the payments were for General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Royalty or License $2,301,858 2 payments
  2. Acquisitions $382,371 18 payments
  3. Food and Beverage $146 5 payments
Products named General payments · program years 2019–2025
  1. Ellipsys Catheters $2,301,858 2 payments
  2. Ellipsys Catheters $280,148 6 payments
  3. ELLIPSYS VASCULAR ACCESS SYSTEM $102,223 12 payments
  4. Impella $68 1 payment
  5. PERCLOT $29 1 payment
  6. CLEVIPREX $19 1 payment
  7. KENGREAL $19 1 payment
  8. Exparel $12 1 payment

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

Billing to Medicare

Part B · data year 2024 · 65 billing codes

Paid by Medicare

$45,992

Medicare's payments for the services billed

Medicare patients

182

Average age 76

Services billed

317

71 women, 111 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%
Ischemic heart disease 55%
Arthritis 55%
Atrial fibrillation 51%
Heart failure 48%
Diabetes 41%
Chronic kidney disease 35%
COPD 32%

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.

Records

25 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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