RxDoctor Payments Data

Evan Chen, MD

Medical Oncology · Boston, MANPI 1679929574

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $17,382 of the $24,735 with a category attached, or 70.3%. 7 manufacturers reported payments, led by Merck at 40.8% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $20,716, more than ten times the $66 reported in 2020.

$24,735in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 31 payments — averaging $797.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$10K
  • Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$6K
  • Autolus Inc$4K
  • AbbVie$2K
  • Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$2K
  • Beigene, Ltd.$280
  • plus $19 from 1 others
$90,756in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 8 payments — averaging $11,345 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$91K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$17,38270%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,71519%
  • Travel & lodging$1,5936%
  • Food & beverage$1,0464%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merck7$10,102
Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.9$6,211
Autolus Inc4$3,719
AbbVie4$2,337
Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.5$2,068
Beigene, Ltd.1$280
Pfizer1$19

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

$24,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 308 medical oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$38,894
Medicare patients
93
Services billed
322

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
VenclextaVenetoclax20$157,098
EliquisApixaban13$8,889
Allopurinol21$1,223
Acyclovir22$183
Hydroxyurea16$176
Levofloxacin14$87
Chlorhexidine Gluconate12$29

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
AbbVieVenclexta$2,337$157,09820 claims
PfizerEliquis$19$8,88913 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 70th percentile of 308 medical oncology providers in Massachusetts.

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