RxDoctor Payments Data

Daksha Mehta, MD

Rheumatology · Elizabethtown, KYNPI 1326048190

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $4,440 of the $6,904 with a category attached, or 64.3%. Gilead accounts for 83.2% of it on its own, with 11 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2020 at $5,926 and has fallen 99.8% since, to $15 in 2023.

$6,904in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 84 payments — averaging $82.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$6K
  • Amgen$312
  • AbbVie$301
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$141
  • Novartis$94
  • Radius Health, Inc.$94
  • plus $215 from 6 others
$229,470in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $6953.62 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Gilead$126K
  • Eli Lilly$86K
  • Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc$18K
  • Hexal AG$0

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,44064%
  • Travel & lodging$97214%
  • Food & beverage$1,35920%
  • Education$1332%

General payments by program year

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23

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

$6,904 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 81 rheumatology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$26,584
Medicare patients
174
Services billed
252

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
ForteoTeriparatide11$50,604
Teriparatide15$44,726
Alendronate Sodium250$6,649
Leflunomide82$2,451
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate85$1,015
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium87$863
Allopurinol70$603
Prednisone111$600
Risedronate Sodium11$376
Etodolac16$159
Azathioprine18$157
Sulfasalazine12$29
Meloxicam19$12

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
Lilly USA, LLCForteo$44$50,60411 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 70th percentile of 81 rheumatology providers in Kentucky.

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