RxDoctor Payments Data

Evan Kushner, MD

Internal Medicine · Paramus, NJNPI 1538108568

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,038in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 147 payments — averaging $13.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$299
  • AbbVie$208
  • Merck$168
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$159
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$128
  • Abbott$126
  • plus $950 from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,038100%

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

$2,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$264,781
Medicare patients
715
Services billed
4,023

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
OzempicSemaglutide94$119,073
EliquisApixaban56$68,845
JardianceEmpagliflozin29$47,578
XareltoRivaroxaban40$46,704
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$13,963
Rosuvastatin Calcium457$6,169
Atorvastatin Calcium567$5,842
Amlodipine Besylate580$5,246
Levothyroxine Sodium362$4,394
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir34$4,165
Sumatriptan Succinate19$3,908
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium39$3,341
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole13$3,063
Nebivolol Hcl49$2,977
Metformin Hcl237$2,660

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$101$119,07394 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$70$73,01090 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$58$46,70440 claims
MerckJanumet$168$13,96313 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$208$3,34139 claims
Almatica Pharma LLCSertraline Hcl$84$1,46165 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 4,032 internal medicine providers in New Jersey.

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