RxDoctor Payments Data

Akua Boah, MD

Rheumatology · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1093910432

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,086in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 98 payments — averaging $21.28 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$380
  • Pfizer$374
  • GSK$341
  • UCB, Inc.$181
  • Johnson & Johnson$174
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$132
  • plus $503 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,98795%
  • Education$995%

Most of this is food and beverage — typically meals provided during product presentations at a clinic or hospital. Nationally that is the single largest category of reported payments by count.

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.

How this compares

$2,086 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$18,295
Medicare patients
90
Services billed
190

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
SaphneloAnifrolumab-Fnia14$74,715
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate55$64,959
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol28$27,737
OzempicSemaglutide26$24,137
EliquisApixaban28$23,888
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$22,697
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$18,034
TrulicityDulaglutide16$16,727
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol25$15,886
Diclofenac Sodium43$4,847
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate80$3,348
Valsartan123$2,380
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium76$1,902
Verapamil SrVerapamil Hcl15$1,851
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog15$1,822

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
AstraZenecaSaphnelo, Farxiga$380$102,45242 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$130$82,99368 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$36$24,13726 claims
PfizerEliquis$374$23,88828 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$25$16,72716 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$341$15,88625 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$14$1,00717 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 45th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

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