RxDoctor Payments Data

Deepankar Sharma, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Columbus, INNPI 1285947226

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $10,725 of the $13,435 with a category attached, or 79.8%. Merit Medical Systems Inc accounts for 82.0% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $6,323 and has fallen 88.4% since, to $732 in 2025.

$13,435in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $537.40 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merit Medical Systems Inc$11K
  • Pulmonx Corporation$2K
  • Intuitive Surgical$854
  • Olympus Corporation Of The Americas$26
  • Insmed, Inc.$19
  • Amgen$18

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$10,72580%
  • Travel & lodging$2,11516%
  • Food & beverage$3032%
  • Education$1121%
  • Gifts$1801%

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

$13,435 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 258 pulmonary disease providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$106,686
Medicare patients
375
Services billed
1,340

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter81$59,970
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl34$33,840
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol46$31,308
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr45$24,356
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol36$18,231
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide19$6,575
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol16$6,243
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide12$6,035
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol45$4,320
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$4,120
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate109$3,169
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate11$1,365
Ventolin HfaAlbuterol Sulfate19$1,327
Montelukast Sodium36$461
Prednisone42$196

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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