RxDoctor Payments Data

Erica Ketchum

Family · Merrillville, INNPI 1407308117

Payments from drug & device makers

$8,622in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 491 payments — averaging $17.56 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Pfizer$404
  • UCB, Inc.$391
  • AstraZeneca$376
  • Biogen$336
  • plus $5K from 44 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$8,610100%
  • Education$130%

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

$8,622 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,392 family providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$34,585
Medicare patients
181
Services billed
396

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
Gamunex-CImmune Globul G/Gly/Iga Avg 4611$101,666
ZonegranZonisamide11$43,435
NayzilamMidazolam23$34,562
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl30$22,923
EliquisApixaban11$14,326
Lacosamide61$10,486
Rivastigmine35$3,026
Levetiracetam60$1,362
Pregabalin26$934
Gabapentin72$889
Oxycodone Hcl12$752
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen37$680
Oxcarbazepine12$649
Atorvastatin Calcium63$636
Donepezil Hcl76$614

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
Grifols USA, LLCGamunex-C$63$101,66611 claims
UCB, Inc.Nayzilam$391$34,56223 claims
AbbVieNamzaric$1,158$22,92330 claims
PfizerEliquis$404$14,32611 claims
Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl$58$7717 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 95th percentile of 4,392 family providers in Indiana.

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