RxDoctor Payments Data

Bruce Goeckeritz, MD

Rheumatology · West Columbia, SCNPI 1366552796

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,634in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 88 payments — averaging $18.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$471
  • Pfizer$273
  • AbbVie$259
  • GSK$136
  • UCB, Inc.$109
  • Novartis$96
  • plus $291 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,59097%
  • Education$443%

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

$1,634 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 123 rheumatology providers in South Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$2,133,416
Medicare patients
643
Services billed
139,458

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) PenAdalimumab188$2,101,146
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept108$849,028
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate29$214,522
OtezlaApremilast33$160,471
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept13$127,871
Humira PenAdalimumab16$117,248
EnbrelEtanercept15$109,894
BenlystaBelimumab19$105,982
SimponiGolimumab16$105,488
RinvoqUpadacitinib16$103,587
Teriparatide34$96,443
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate590$24,116
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium428$10,057
Leflunomide162$8,509
Mycophenolate Mofetil63$5,701

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
AmgenOtezla, Enbrel$471$270,36548 claims
GSKBenlysta$136$105,98219 claims
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$35$105,48816 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$259$103,58716 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 30th percentile of 123 rheumatology providers in South Carolina.

Other rheumatology in West Columbia

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