RxDoctor Payments Data

Amanda Cheung, MD

Hepatology · Chicago, ILNPI 1548585193

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $39,615 of the $64,336 with a category attached, or 61.6%. Novo Nordisk accounts for 81.4% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $43,948, more than ten times the $38 reported in 2022.

$64,336in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $1128.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$52K
  • Orphalan Inc$7K
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$4K
  • Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$500
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$111
  • AstraZeneca$68
  • plus $58 from 1 others
$327,015in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 41 payments — averaging $7975.98 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.

  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$298K
  • Bausch Health US, LLC$29K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$17,83928%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$39,61562%
  • Travel & lodging$3,7956%
  • Food & beverage$3,0885%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novo Nordisk38$52,373
Orphalan Inc5$7,181
Madrigal Pharmaceuticals8$4,045
Eton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$500
Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.1$111
AstraZeneca2$68
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC2$58

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

$64,336 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 21 hepatology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$57,463
Medicare patients
278
Services billed
608

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
XifaxanRifaximin29$129,553
Ursodiol96$18,510
VemlidyTenofovir Alafenamide12$16,110
Tacrolimus81$13,196
Mycophenolate Mofetil13$1,211
Lactulose17$722
Spironolactone11$204
Carvedilol28$182
Atorvastatin Calcium14$176
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim50$135
Prednisone14$81

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
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$58$129,55329 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 85th percentile of 21 hepatology providers in Illinois.

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