RxDoctor Payments Data

Cindy Chapman

Family · Merrillville, INNPI 1104410968

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,987in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 140 payments — averaging $21.34 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.$831
  • AstraZeneca$415
  • Amgen$207
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$193
  • Ardelyx, Inc.$175
  • Novo Nordisk$142
  • plus $1K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,92198%
  • Education$662%

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

$2,987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 4,392 family providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$10,926
Medicare patients
61
Services billed
302

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
VelphoroSucroferric Oxyhydroxide72$174,686
RenvelaSevelamer Carbonate17$35,296
Lanthanum Carbonate35$25,937
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol29$25,398
Sevelamer Carbonate162$19,927
JardianceEmpagliflozin17$17,054
Potassium Citrate ErPotassium Citrate15$2,294
Clonidine11$1,636
Furosemide95$786
Chlorthalidone38$772
Calcitriol40$766
Ropinirole Hcl34$740
Hydralazine Hcl31$720
Bumetanide15$706
Tamsulosin Hcl21$564

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
Fresenius USA Marketing, Inc.Velphoro$831$174,68672 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$415$25,39829 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$87$17,05417 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 85th percentile of 4,392 family providers in Indiana.

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