RxDoctor Payments Data

David Brubaker, MD

Family Medicine · Houghton, NYNPI 1316919152

Payments from drug & device makers

$897in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 56 payments — averaging $16.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$338
  • GSK$156
  • Lilly USA, LLC$91
  • AstraZeneca$59
  • Merck$46
  • Novartis$43
  • plus $165 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$897100%

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

$897 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$225
Medicare patients
14
Services billed
17

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
TrulicityDulaglutide55$85,649
JardianceEmpagliflozin106$85,594
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol46$36,252
OzempicSemaglutide27$35,257
XareltoRivaroxaban23$17,446
EliquisApixaban18$14,624
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$13,829
Tresiba Flextouch U-100Insulin Degludec13$7,930
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol12$4,816
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf17$3,595
Atorvastatin Calcium123$1,807
Metoprolol Succinate74$1,747
Gabapentin77$1,647
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium17$1,635
Levothyroxine Sodium85$1,581

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, LLCTrulicity$91$85,64955 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$59$36,25246 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$338$35,25727 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Shingrix$156$22,24042 claims
PfizerEliquis$32$14,62418 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$41$1,63517 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 65th percentile of 4,321 family medicine providers in New York.

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