RxDoctor Payments Data

Brett Scharf

Family Medicine · Altoona, PANPI 1902876634

Payments from drug & device makers

$268in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $22.37 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$131
  • Indivior Inc.$75
  • Novartis$31
  • Viatris Specialty LLC$19
  • Johnson & Johnson$12

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$19272%
  • Education$7628%

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

19
22
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.

How this compares

$268 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$331,244
Medicare patients
852
Services billed
4,693

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
EliquisApixaban2,941$785,972
Humira(Cf)Adalimumab13$158,587
XareltoRivaroxaban552$144,163
JardianceEmpagliflozin341$108,192
MyrbetriqMirabegron520$101,959
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter145$94,100
NuplazidPimavanserin Tartrate39$92,453
RexultiBrexpiprazole129$87,440
Austedo XrDeutetrabenazine14$75,376
XifaxanRifaximin52$68,226
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala30$66,977
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog230$57,993
TrulicityDulaglutide81$56,148
GemtesaVibegron299$44,022
Atorvastatin Calcium2,346$39,070

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$12$144,163552 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo Xr$131$75,37614 claims
NovartisEntresto$31$32,074102 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 50th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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