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Gerome Kantor, MD

Internal Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1407850290

Payments from drug & device makers

$202in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 12 payments — averaging $16.82 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$85
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$35
  • GSK$20
  • Amgen$19
  • Merck$19
  • AbbVie$12
  • plus $12 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$202100%

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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22
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24

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
Johnson & Johnson5$85
Astellas Pharma US Inc2$35
GSK1$20
Amgen1$19
Merck1$19
AbbVie1$12
Pfizer1$12

How this compares

$202 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$165,086
Medicare patients
332
Services billed
4,263

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
EliquisApixaban49$64,801
ProliaDenosumab19$33,703
JardianceEmpagliflozin22$32,714
OzempicSemaglutide12$13,989
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate14$12,898
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$9,006
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate16$7,479
Adderall XrDextroamphetamine/Amphetamine21$4,437
Levothyroxine Sodium337$4,234
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium34$3,083
Atorvastatin Calcium310$2,933
Losartan Potassium294$2,629
Omeprazole168$2,573
Tamsulosin Hcl130$2,096
Gabapentin82$1,873

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
PfizerEliquis$12$64,80149 claims
AmgenProlia$19$33,70319 claims
MerckJanuvia$19$12,89814 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$20$9,00612 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$12$3,08334 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 55th percentile of 2,212 internal medicine providers in Arizona.

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