RxDoctor Payments Data

Barbara Spivak, MD

Internal Medicine · Watertown, MANPI 1952301251

Payments from drug & device makers

$416in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $21.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$111
  • GSK$76
  • Johnson & Johnson$51
  • Pfizer$49
  • AstraZeneca$34
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$31
  • plus $64 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$416100%

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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24

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

$416 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$117,926
Medicare patients
205
Services billed
2,382

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
EliquisApixaban123$115,814
OzempicSemaglutide18$27,200
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$21,776
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl13$15,476
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol14$8,207
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$7,277
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate15$6,280
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate12$5,868
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide11$5,577
Atorvastatin Calcium395$5,057
Metoprolol Succinate203$4,457
Qvar RedihalerBeclomethasone Dipropionate13$3,118
Lisinopril318$3,029
Estradiol25$2,661
Levothyroxine Sodium177$2,578

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$49$115,814123 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat, Spiriva Respimat$31$33,22143 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere$34$8,20714 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$76$7,27716 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$20$2,02440 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 75th percentile of 4,983 internal medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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