RxDoctor Payments Data

Arun Gupta, MD

Addiction Medicine · Monroe, MINPI 1841225166

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 189 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 38 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 17.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,493 and has fallen 56.5% since, to $650 in 2025. Among addiction medicine clinicians in MI with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,495in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 189 payments — averaging $29.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$973
  • Johnson & Johnson$757
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$419
  • Boston Scientific$372
  • Novo Nordisk$366
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$344
  • plus $2K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,495100%

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.

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

$5,495 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 62 addiction medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$120,986
Medicare patients
138
Services billed
3,280

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
Buprenorphine-NaloxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl679$66,990
EliquisApixaban54$43,844
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate40$39,933
MounjaroTirzepatide29$30,539
OzempicSemaglutide18$28,018
ZubsolvBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl117$25,936
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter28$22,851
VraylarCariprazine Hcl11$15,145
RybelsusSemaglutide11$12,955
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$12,246
BelbucaBuprenorphine Hcl14$11,673
SuboxoneBuprenorphine Hcl/Naloxone Hcl37$10,844
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol25$10,243
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab20$10,038
LantusInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog21$4,589

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
PfizerEliquis$87$43,84454 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$366$40,97329 claims
MerckJanuvia$11$39,93340 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$38$33,09453 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$115$30,53929 claims
Orexo US, Inc.Zubsolv$195$25,936117 claims
AbbVieVraylar$973$15,14511 claims
Indivior Inc.Suboxone$180$10,84437 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$47$4,58921 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 62 addiction medicine providers in Michigan.

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