RxDoctor Payments Data

Elizabeth Chu, MD

Rheumatology · Gainesville, FLNPI 1902257025

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,515in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $140.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Argenx US, Inc.$1K
  • Astrazeneca UK Limited$1K
  • Sobi, Inc$225
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$134
  • AstraZeneca$123
  • GSK$121
  • plus $208 from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2,08759%
  • Food & beverage$1,32738%
  • Education$1003%

General payments by program year

20
23
24
25

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

$3,515 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,330
Medicare patients
223
Services billed
550

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
GammaplexImmun Glob G(Igg)/Gly/Iga 0-5018$601,944
OctagamImmun Globg(Igg)/Malt/Iga Ov5011$270,785
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept35$211,660
EnbrelEtanercept17$144,093
RinvoqUpadacitinib20$134,779
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept14$115,828
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab26$96,034
Humira PenAdalimumab13$92,126
SimponiGolimumab11$80,865
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab11$72,584
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium194$5,614
Mycophenolate Mofetil23$5,438
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate148$5,198
Mycophenolic AcidMycophenolate Sodium27$4,033
Colchicine14$1,848

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
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$60$80,86511 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 35th percentile of 453 rheumatology providers in Florida.

Other rheumatology in Gainesville

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