RxDoctor Payments Data

Eric Orlowsky, MD

Rheumatology · Charlotte, NCNPI 1508028713

Payments from drug & device makers

$9,603in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 463 payments — averaging $20.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$2K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$866
  • AstraZeneca$745
  • Novartis$669
  • UCB, Inc.$622
  • plus $3K from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$9,36397%
  • Education$2403%

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.

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

$9,603 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,775,608
Medicare patients
518
Services billed
97,100

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept14$103,056
TymlosAbaloparatide37$98,215
Enbrel MiniEtanercept12$92,438
Cimzia (2 Pack)Certolizumab Pegol14$78,783
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab12$51,789
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate199$6,443
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium239$4,660
Leflunomide75$2,850
Colchicine30$2,452
Mycophenolate Mofetil15$1,978
Prednisone212$1,385
Allopurinol83$1,233
Pilocarpine Hcl11$997
Sulfasalazine37$951
Celecoxib25$611

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
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$324$98,21537 claims
UCB, Inc.Cimzia (2 Pack)$622$78,78314 claims
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$43$2,45230 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 210 rheumatology providers in North Carolina.

Other rheumatology in Charlotte

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