RxDoctor Payments Data

Daniel Sturgill, MD

Nephrology · Milwaukee, WINPI 1922341189

Payments from drug & device makers

$631in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $30.05 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$313
  • AstraZeneca$143
  • Amgen$64
  • Travere Therapeutics, Inc.$24
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$23
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$21
  • plus $44 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$631100%

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

$631 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 173 nephrology providers in Wisconsin.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$94,951
Medicare patients
181
Services billed
653

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin95$103,624
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol26$23,715
KerendiaFinerenone14$22,236
LokelmaSodium Zirconium Cyclosilicate14$13,801
SpsSodium Polystyrene Sulfon/Sorb25$4,901
Calcium Acetate35$3,436
Sevelamer Carbonate25$3,344
Bumetanide37$2,718
Losartan Potassium180$1,509
Midodrine Hcl17$1,070
Nifedipine ErNifedipine25$762
Potassium Chloride15$747
Furosemide131$707
Lisinopril125$654
Atorvastatin Calcium45$602

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$23$103,62495 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Lokelma$143$37,51640 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 173 nephrology providers in Wisconsin.

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