Official source Data mirrored from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Open Payments · General Payments · as published 2026-01-23 View official record Methodology

Covered recipient · General Payments record

KATHY L HERSHBERGER

Physician Assistants & Advanced Practice Nursing Providers Physician Assistant

NPI
1255332680
CMS profile
11046879
Location
TOPEKA, KS

General Payments · PY2021–2024

$987.23

  • Reported across 36 records
  • CMS publication 2026-01-23

Latest program year · PY2024

$273.65

14 records · 0 disputed

Financial relationships do not necessarily indicate an improper relationship; the data is open to interpretation.

How these totals are calculated
  • The total is the sum of the General Payments records CMS published for the labeled program year(s), exactly as published. Nothing is estimated, weighted, or combined across categories.
  • General Payments only. Research and Ownership/Investment are separate datasets and are never summed with these figures; amounts are kept separate per program year.
  • Featured-page threshold (a presentation gate, not a judgment): records>=3 OR total>=100 (all years).
  • Methodology & Data — sourcing, labeling, and limitations.

By nature of payment

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Nature of paymentAmountRecords
Food and Beverage $273.65 14

By paying entity

PY2024 · sorted by reported total

Paying entityAmountRecords
Solventum Corporation $54.11 3
Smith & Nephew, Inc. $48.17 3
ORGANOGENESIS INC. $47.65 2
MIMEDX Group, Inc. $46.04 2
Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. $33.35 2
Hydrofera LLC $24.33 1
ConvaTec Inc. $20.00 1

By program year

All program years on this page · sorted by year

Program yearAmountRecords
PY2021 $228.68 2
PY2022 $210.70 6
PY2023 $274.20 14
PY2024 $273.65 14

Payment records · PY2024 (14)

Sorted by paying entity, then date · as published by CMS

Program year 2024 202120222023 Record-level detail is published for PY2024; earlier years are summarised in “By program year”.
Paying entity Amount Date Nature of payment Dispute status Published Record ID Source
ConvaTec Inc. $20.00 08/06/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1151390423 CMS
Hydrofera LLC $24.33 07/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1129423332 CMS
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC $17.84 05/14/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140481480 CMS
Melinta Therapeutics, LLC $15.51 12/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140480370 CMS
MIMEDX Group, Inc. $24.96 06/20/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140274482 CMS
MIMEDX Group, Inc. $21.08 10/09/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1140274484 CMS
Organogenesis Inc. $31.47 09/26/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145458608 CMS
Organogenesis Inc. $16.18 11/22/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1145458610 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $13.51 04/16/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149501274 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $21.16 05/04/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149501276 CMS
Smith+Nephew, Inc. $13.50 06/17/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1149501272 CMS
Solventum Corporation $19.57 04/10/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144071195 CMS
Solventum Corporation $17.67 06/11/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144071197 CMS
Solventum Corporation $16.87 09/19/2024 Food and Beverage Undisputed 01/23/2026 1144071199 CMS

Source & provenance

Dataset
CMS Open Payments — General Payments
Publisher of source data
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
CMS publication date
2026-01-23
Program years on this page
2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Source files
Dataset page · Bulk file · PY2021 , PY2022 , PY2023 , PY2024
Generated from
OP_DTL_GNRL_PGYR2024_P01232026_01102026.csv

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