Donald Altenburg, PA
Physician Assistant · Burnsville, MNNPI 1811225899
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 91 payments — averaging $20.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc.$208
- UCB, Inc.$123
- AbbVie$101
- Novartis$90
- Bristol Myers Squibb$85
- Eisai Inc.$80
- plus $1K from 32 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$1508%
- Food & beverage$1,67692%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 6 | $208 |
| UCB, Inc. | 6 | $123 |
| AbbVie(2 entities) | 6 | $101 |
| Novartis | 4 | $90 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | 3 | $85 |
| Eisai Inc. | 4 | $80 |
| Kyowa Kirin, Inc. | 3 | $78 |
| EMD Serono, Inc. | 4 | $73 |
| Pfizer | 4 | $71 |
| Biogen | 4 | $63 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 3 | $58 |
| Neurelis, Inc. | 3 | $55 |
| Lundbeck LLC | 3 | $52 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $51 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 3 | $48 |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLC | 2 | $42 |
| Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc | 2 | $40 |
| MDD US Operations, LLC | 2 | $40 |
| NS Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $39 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $38 |
| Axsome Therapeutics, Inc. | 2 | $36 |
| CSL Behring | 2 | $34 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 2 | $32 |
| Adamas Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 2 | $32 |
| Argenx US, Inc. | 2 | $31 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $27 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $21 |
| Xeris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. | 1 | $20 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc. | 1 | $19 |
| Banner Life Sciences, LLC | 1 | $18 |
| Corium, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| Impel Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $17 |
| TG Therapeutics, Inc. | 1 | $17 |
| Amgen | 1 | $15 |
| Hospira, Inc. | 1 | $14 |
| Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Almatica Pharma LLC | 1 | $12 |
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
$1,826 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 3,121 physician assistant providers in Minnesota.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Nurtec OdtRimegepant Sulfate | 76 | $116,674 |
| UbrelvyUbrogepant | 26 | $33,690 |
| Aimovig AutoinjectorErenumab-Aooe | 30 | $23,432 |
| Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm | 25 | $21,193 |
| Gabapentin | 444 | $12,331 |
| EliquisApixaban | 11 | $8,956 |
| Lacosamide | 50 | $7,950 |
| Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa | 166 | $7,799 |
| Sumatriptan Succinate | 59 | $3,593 |
| Levetiracetam | 135 | $3,423 |
| Levetiracetam ErLevetiracetam | 16 | $3,234 |
| Duloxetine Hcl | 119 | $3,186 |
| Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine | 18 | $2,743 |
| Topiramate | 130 | $2,351 |
| Primidone | 44 | $2,049 |
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.
| Company | Paid to this provider | Part D cost of their drugs |
|---|---|---|
| PfizerNurtec Odt, Eliquis | $71 | $125,63087 claims |
| AbbVieUbrelvy | $101 | $33,69026 claims |
| Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCPyridostigmine Bromide | $42 | $1,27013 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 90th percentile of 3,121 physician assistant providers in Minnesota.
Other physician assistant in Burnsville
- Daniel NguyenBurnsville$8K
- Robyn KunkelBurnsville$4K
- Sara RobeckBloomington$274K
- Natalie IkemanEdina$170K
- Adam HetzBlaine$156K
- Sarah SchettleRochester$150K
- John IsenbergMaple Grove$92K
- Kenneth MitchellWoodbury$87K
- Jennifer SutherlandMinneapolis$65K
- George FroehleMinneapolis$61K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.