RxDoctor Payments Data

Bradley Schlussel, MD

Rheumatology · Long Beach, NYNPI 1174927925

Payments from drug & device makers

$630in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $20.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$222
  • Genentech USA, Inc.$99
  • AbbVie$91
  • Lilly USA, LLC$70
  • AstraZeneca$54
  • UCB, Inc.$22
  • plus $72 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$51782%
  • Education$11318%

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.

How this compares

$630 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$482,010
Medicare patients
275
Services billed
28,333

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab88$755,214
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate78$484,173
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept57$440,141
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab17$231,513
OtezlaApremilast25$125,178
BenlystaBelimumab29$107,229
Colchicine56$6,987
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium278$6,013
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate196$5,780
Leflunomide65$4,691
Mycophenolate Mofetil29$3,759
Allopurinol221$2,746
Prednisone328$2,271
Febuxostat13$1,987
Diclofenac Sodium71$1,929

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
AbbVieHumira(Cf)$91$231,51317 claims
AmgenOtezla$222$125,17825 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 35th percentile of 541 rheumatology providers in New York.

Other rheumatology in Long Beach

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