RxDoctor Payments Data

George Yendewa, MD

Infectious Disease · Cleveland, OHNPI 1922413384

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (43.5%), speaking fees and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 15 manufacturers reported payments, led by Pfizer at 47.5% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2024 at $8,245 and has fallen 93.8% since, to $512 in 2025. Among infectious disease clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$19,445in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 119 payments — averaging $163.41 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$9K
  • Gilead$9K
  • Merck$210
  • Johnson & Johnson$191
  • Melinta Therapeutics, LLC$189
  • Shionogi Inc$189
  • plus $746 from 9 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$8,45043%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$6,54534%
  • Travel & lodging$1,94110%
  • Food & beverage$2,40912%
  • Education$1001%

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

$19,445 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 308 infectious disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$13,307
Medicare patients
65
Services billed
140

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala61$253,066
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium99$227,263
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam63$144,647
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi31$124,723
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine27$97,879
PrezcobixDarunavir/Cobicistat12$31,264
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium12$23,579
EdurantRilpivirine Hcl17$23,260
Darunavir24$21,422
LyricaPregabalin12$15,356
Etravirine12$14,000
Meropenem30$5,121
Ritonavir17$4,724
Testosterone21$4,671
Doxycycline Hyclate29$1,191

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
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay, Triumeq, Juluca$172$449,865157 claims
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy$8,683$397,713124 claims
Johnson & JohnsonPrezcobix$191$31,26412 claims
MerckIsentress$210$23,57912 claims
PfizerLyrica$9,235$15,35612 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 90th percentile of 308 infectious disease providers in Ohio.

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