Who Paid My Doc
Michael Epstein
Gastroenterology Annapolis, MD Medical Doctor
NPI 1942238928 CMS profile 178925
621 Ridgely Ave, Suite 201, Annapolis, MD 21401
General payments
$162,082
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$1,246,249
Through program year 2025, Michael Epstein of Annapolis, MD is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $162,082 across 719 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $1,246,249 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than 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. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Gastroenterology profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
6 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $89 | 2 | |
| 2023 | General | $3,182 | 68 | |
| 2022 | General | $26,281 | 171 | |
| 2021 | General | $39,988 | 153 | |
| 2020 | General | $31,166 | 131 | |
| 2019 | General | $61,377 | 194 |
Beside peers
- Michael Epstein
- Gastroenterology median
- Middle half of Gastroenterology
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Michael Epstein were reported at $89. Among 13,050 Gastroenterology profiles paid that year, the median was $639 and the middle half received between $167 and $1,700.
Show as a table
| Year | Michael Epstein | Gastroenterology median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $61,377 | $417 | $126–$1,100 | $163 |
| 2020 | $31,166 | $224 | $74–$624 | $114 |
| 2021 | $39,988 | $352 | $106–$1,054 | $132 |
| 2022 | $26,281 | $448 | $129–$1,270 | $149 |
| 2023 | $3,182 | $533 | $150–$1,390 | $160 |
| 2024 | $0 | $605 | $160–$1,606 | $164 |
| 2025 | $89 | $639 | $167–$1,700 | $169 |
Breakdown
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 · 4 drugsPart D claims
65
Drug cost
$2,840
Branded share of claims
40%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esomeprazole Magnesium | Generic | 13 | $1,932 | |
| Lansoprazole | Generic | 13 | $494 | |
| Lactated Ringers Ringer's Solution,lactated | Brand | 26 | $250 | |
| Pantoprazole Sodium | Generic | 13 | $163 |
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 104,182 Part D prescribers listed as Internal Medicine; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Records
719 reportedEvery 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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How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
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.