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Adam Brufsky, MD

Medical Oncology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1518939537

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,037,057in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,431 payments — averaging $4218.77 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1.2M
  • AstraZeneca$652K
  • Gilead$491K
  • Puma Biotechnology, Inc.$480K
  • Eli Lilly$443K
  • Genentech, Inc.$429K
  • plus $2.3M from 43 others
$132,881in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $1510.02 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$96K
  • F. Hoffmann-la Roche AG$11K
  • Eli Lilly$9K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$6K
  • Amgen$6K
  • Novartis$4K
  • plus $806 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$755,34758%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$378,81629%
  • Grants$3500%
  • Travel & lodging$150,78212%
  • Food & beverage$20,6702%
  • Education$430%

General payments by program year

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Who reported the general payments

Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$6,037,057 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 238 medical oncology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$37,495
Medicare patients
190
Services billed
395

What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
IbrancePalbociclib59$1,002,122
OrserduElacestrant Hcl16$370,714
VerzenioAbemaciclib21$221,796
Anastrozole394$7,415
Exemestane62$4,441
Letrozole184$4,036
Tamoxifen Citrate97$2,425
Ibandronate Sodium11$620
Oxybutynin Chloride ErOxybutynin Chloride13$280
Prochlorperazine Maleate45$245
Gabapentin17$227
Dexamethasone12$204
Ondansetron Hcl33$178
Ondansetron OdtOndansetron22$158
Prednisone24$30

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Companies that both paid and supply prescribed drugs

These companies both reported payments to this provider and make drugs the provider prescribed under Medicare Part D in 2024. For most specialties this overlap is expected — a cardiologist who is paid by a cardiology drugmaker also treats heart disease. It is shown so the reader can see it, not because it implies anything on its own.

CompanyPaid to this providerPart D cost of their drugs
PfizerIbrance$1,210,840$1,002,12259 claims
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.Orserdu$20,472$370,71416 claims
Lilly USA, LLCVerzenio$69,239$221,79621 claims

Reading this fairly. The Part D column is what drug plans and patients paid pharmacies — this provider received none of it, and it reflects how many patients they treat and what those drugs cost. Against peers, this provider's reported payments sit in the 90th percentile of 238 medical oncology providers in Pennsylvania.

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