RxDoctor Payments Data

Ellen Burkett, MD

Internal Medicine · Highlands Ranch, CONPI 1659334118

Payments from drug & device makers

$537in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $17.32 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$115
  • Amgen$96
  • AstraZeneca$45
  • Abbott$41
  • GSK$36
  • Medtronic$25
  • plus $180 from 10 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$537100%

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

19
20
22

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

$537 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$183,086
Medicare patients
718
Services billed
1,985

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
EliquisApixaban143$177,572
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate46$54,618
OzempicSemaglutide43$51,033
XareltoRivaroxaban36$42,392
MyrbetriqMirabegron21$20,250
JardianceEmpagliflozin15$17,594
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab15$14,702
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog16$13,307
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan12$13,045
MounjaroTirzepatide13$12,944
Levothyroxine Sodium710$6,804
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium141$6,243
Rosuvastatin Calcium537$5,332
DuleraMometasone/Formoterol14$4,831
Ibandronate Sodium134$4,685

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
PfizerEliquis$16$177,572143 claims
MerckJanuvia, Dulera$14$59,44960 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$13$42,39236 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$19$20,25021 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$115$6,243141 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 80th percentile of 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.

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