RxDoctor Payments Data

Benjamin Mulkey

Roanoke, VANPI 1124522115

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — travel and lodging (39.8%), food and beverage and grants — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 20 manufacturers reported payments, led by Medtronic at 27.6% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $22,971, more than ten times the $178 reported in 2021.

$35,957in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 212 payments — averaging $169.61 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$10K
  • Abbott$9K
  • Biotronik Inc.$6K
  • Biosense Webster, Inc.$5K
  • Boston Scientific$4K
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$486
  • plus $1K from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Grants$10,00028%
  • Travel & lodging$14,31140%
  • Food & beverage$10,83830%
  • Education$8082%

General payments by program year

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22
23
24
25

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EliquisApixaban56$58,658
Rosuvastatin Calcium62$986
Metoprolol Succinate38$339
Ezetimibe21$281
Atorvastatin Calcium42$274
Pantoprazole Sodium11$262
Amiodarone Hcl15$228
Metoprolol Tartrate25$148
Carvedilol12$121
Losartan Potassium15$77
Hydrochlorothiazide16$30
Klor-Con M20Potassium Chloride11$22
Amlodipine Besylate13$5

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$126$58,65856 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. There are too few providers in Virginiaon file to place this against a meaningful peer group, so we don't.

Where these figures come from

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