RxDoctor Payments Data

Charles Whitaker, MD

Family Medicine · Coldwater, MINPI 1821054966

Payments from drug & device makers

$558in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $15.94 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$70
  • Pfizer$66
  • Johnson & Johnson$44
  • AstraZeneca$42
  • AbbVie$39
  • Novartis$38
  • plus $258 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$558100%

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

$558 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$296,363
Medicare patients
833
Services billed
2,986

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
EliquisApixaban987$313,470
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter251$167,560
XareltoRivaroxaban389$152,992
JardianceEmpagliflozin396$140,051
OzempicSemaglutide104$105,761
MyrbetriqMirabegron218$59,562
XifaxanRifaximin19$52,830
OtezlaApremilast17$41,792
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol78$38,317
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol93$36,909
Atorvastatin Calcium1,828$35,001
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide16$27,250
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog116$26,717
TrulicityDulaglutide33$26,596
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam12$25,591

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
PfizerEliquis$66$313,470987 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$70$205,877329 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto, Invega Sustenna, Risperdal Consta$44$191,544422 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$27$140,051396 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$33$119,049116 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$18$59,562218 claims
AmgenOtezla$14$41,79217 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$42$36,90993 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$15$26,59633 claims
NovartisEntresto$38$21,67755 claims
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Nuedexta$26$20,38926 claims
AbbVieLinzess$39$16,32526 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 60th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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