Who Paid My Doc
Sue Fessler
Pulmonary Disease Kalispell, MT Medical Doctor
NPI 1174512636 CMS profile 738495
350 Heritage Way Ste 2100, Kalispell, MT 59901
General payments
$558
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2024, Sue Fessler of Kalispell, MT is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $558 across 37 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 33rd percentile of Pulmonary Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
3 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | General | $136 | 3 | |
| 2020 | General | $80 | 6 | |
| 2019 | General | $342 | 28 |
Beside peers
- Sue Fessler
- Pulmonary Disease median
- Middle half of Pulmonary Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Sue Fessler were reported at $0. Among 8,914 Pulmonary Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $500 and the middle half received between $124 and $1,893.
Show as a table
| Year | Sue Fessler | Pulmonary Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $342 | $377 | $109–$1,340 | $163 |
| 2020 | $80 | $230 | $56–$907 | $114 |
| 2021 | $0 | $269 | $68–$1,072 | $132 |
| 2022 | $0 | $390 | $100–$1,457 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $419 | $114–$1,659 | $160 |
| 2024 | $136 | $476 | $123–$1,818 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $500 | $124–$1,893 | $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 · 29 drugsPart D claims
1,305
Drug cost
$588,961
Branded share of claims
72%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ofev Nintedanib Esylate | Brand | 12 | $140,805 | |
| Trelegy Ellipta Fluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter | Brand | 90 | $89,365 | |
| Breo Ellipta Fluticasone/Vilanterol | Brand | 103 | $50,815 | |
| Spiriva Respimat Tiotropium Bromide | Brand | 71 | $49,387 | |
| Dupixent Pen Dupilumab | Brand | 13 | $46,273 | |
| Stiolto Respimat Tiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl | Brand | 41 | $34,089 | |
| Advair Hfa Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol | Brand | 48 | $29,403 | |
| Symbicort Budesonide/Formoterol Fumarate | Brand | 89 | $26,361 | |
| Breztri Aerosphere Budesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol | Brand | 19 | $21,419 | |
| Spiriva Handihaler Tiotropium Bromide | Brand | 20 | $16,762 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 29 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 9,233 Part D prescribers listed as Pulmonary Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 30 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$62,394
Medicare patients
327
Services billed
738
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 75% | |
| COPD | 46% | |
| Arthritis | 42% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 38% | |
| Heart failure | 32% | |
| Diabetes | 31% | |
| Atrial fibrillation | 27% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 23% |
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
37 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.
Other Pulmonary Disease in Montana
Related records
Pulmonary Disease in Montana
Practitioners in the same specialty and state, ranked by reported value.
All Pulmonary Disease
Everyone recorded under this specialty, nationwide.
Doctors in Montana
Every practitioner in the state with a reported payment.
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.