RxDoctor Payments Data

Brandon Jakubowski, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Dallas, TXNPI 1902268667

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,065in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $98.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$893
  • Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.$417
  • Penumbra, Inc.$249
  • Bayer$218
  • Johnson & Johnson$123
  • United Therapeutics Corporation$117
  • plus $47 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$20010%
  • Travel & lodging$64331%
  • Food & beverage$1,17857%
  • Education$442%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merck8$893
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.4$417
Penumbra, Inc.2$249
Bayer2$218
Johnson & Johnson1$123
United Therapeutics Corporation2$117
GSK1$29
Liquidia Technologies, Inc.1$18

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

$2,065 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$96,474
Medicare patients
273
Services billed
887

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
UptraviSelexipag20$556,053
OpsumitMacitentan30$383,670
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter89$84,460
EliquisApixaban24$15,403
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol19$12,347
Sildenafil Citrate21$6,814
Tadalafil40$5,168
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate113$3,982
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$1,383
Azithromycin24$969
Montelukast Sodium15$127
Furosemide19$119
Spironolactone13$86
Prednisone14$61

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
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Uptravi, Opsumit$417$939,72350 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$29$96,808108 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 45th percentile of 904 pulmonary disease providers in Texas.

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