RxDoctor Payments Data

Christopher Meyer, MD

Rheumatology · Asheville, NCNPI 1598984155

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,827in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 214 payments — averaging $17.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$2K
  • AbbVie$494
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$371
  • Johnson & Johnson$346
  • Pfizer$254
  • Novartis$196
  • plus $656 from 14 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,827100%

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.

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

$3,827 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,921,147
Medicare patients
457
Services billed
150,192

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept46$429,067
SimponiGolimumab51$350,312
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab36$267,564
ForteoTeriparatide59$248,776
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab35$244,246
TremfyaGuselkumab17$237,808
EnbrelEtanercept17$220,248
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate34$194,594
OtezlaApremilast40$194,197
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept31$178,632
ActemraTocilizumab27$138,382
HumiraAdalimumab15$105,334
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab21$102,216
Teriparatide24$72,247
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate630$20,201

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 & JohnsonSimponi, Tremfya$346$588,12068 claims
AmgenEnbrel, Otezla$1,511$414,44557 claims
AbbVieHumira$494$105,33415 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$21$50113 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 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

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