RxDoctor Payments Data

Erin Esskuchen

Family · Birmingham, ALNPI 1790163053

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,992in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 123 payments — averaging $16.19 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$587
  • Pfizer$542
  • Johnson & Johnson$324
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$132
  • Sanofi$75
  • Celltrion USA Inc.$45
  • plus $287 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,97499%
  • Education$171%

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.

How this compares

$1,992 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 3,415 family providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$29,737
Medicare patients
200
Services billed
479

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
EntyvioVedolizumab13$115,603
LinzessLinaclotide25$16,928
SutabSod Sulf/Pot Chloride/Mag Sulf52$8,341
Mesalamine18$7,051
Ursodiol17$5,206
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole13$4,856
Sucralfate65$3,004
Budesonide DrBudesonide16$2,545
Pantoprazole Sodium220$2,487
Esomeprazole Magnesium27$2,278
Colestipol Hcl38$1,930
Dicyclomine Hcl97$1,904
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)40$1,735
Omeprazole101$1,730
Rabeprazole Sodium33$1,685

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
Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.Entyvio$39$115,60313 claims
AbbVieLinzess$587$16,92825 claims
Braintree Laboratories, Inc.Sutab$14$8,34152 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 75th percentile of 3,415 family providers in Alabama.

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