RxDoctor Payments Data

Bradley Ertel, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Buffalo, NYNPI 1932360773

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,264in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 202 payments — averaging $21.11 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Smith+Nephew$2K
  • Organogenesis Inc.$750
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$545
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$231
  • Acera Surgical, Inc.$226
  • KCI USA, Inc.$143
  • plus $619 from 16 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,264100%

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

$4,264 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 872 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$82,108
Medicare patients
331
Services billed
1,287

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
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.160$67,204
Doxycycline Hyclate165$1,244
Linezolid26$819
Ammonium Lactate21$649
Clindamycin Hcl17$432
Clobetasol Propionate28$358
Levofloxacin54$197
NyamycNystatin20$192
Clotrimazole-BetamethasoneClotrimazole/Betamethasone Dip11$176
Mupirocin23$169
Triamcinolone Acetonide31$166
Nystatin11$97
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav16$77
Prednisone11$32
Sulfamethoxazole-TrimethoprimSulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim12$32

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
Smith+NephewSantyl$1,750$67,204160 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 872 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in New York.

Other physical medicine & rehabilitation in Buffalo

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