RxDoctor Payments Data

Gregory Emkey, MD

Rheumatology · Wyomissing, PANPI 1124204136

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $118,275 of the $171,735 with a category attached, or 68.9%. 42 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 56.0% of the total. Among rheumatology clinicians in PA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$171,735in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 987 payments — averaging $174.00 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$96K
  • Amgen$53K
  • Pfizer$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • Radius Health, Inc.$3K
  • AstraZeneca$944
  • plus $6K from 36 others
$1,018,647in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 165 payments — averaging $6173.62 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.

  • UCB SA$417K
  • Gilead$373K
  • Amgen$76K
  • AbbVie$71K
  • Eli Lilly$69K
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$12K
  • plus $815 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$10,9476%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$118,27569%
  • Travel & lodging$21,17712%
  • Food & beverage$21,05712%
  • Education$2780%

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

$171,735 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$3,118,046
Medicare patients
1,182
Services billed
153,865

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab60$400,328
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept49$353,352
RinvoqUpadacitinib40$289,683
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate22$132,620
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept12$66,580
ProliaDenosumab37$64,905
BenlystaBelimumab14$63,815
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate442$14,878
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium268$9,330
Febuxostat30$4,160
Alendronate Sodium443$4,101
Duloxetine Hcl205$3,384
Mycophenolate Mofetil37$2,953
Prednisone449$2,770
Gabapentin186$2,402

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
AbbVieRinvoq$96,182$289,68340 claims
AmgenProlia$52,678$64,90537 claims
GSKBenlysta$515$63,81514 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 95th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

Other rheumatology in Wyomissing

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