RxDoctor Payments Data

Hanna Zembrzuska, MD

Rheumatology · Iowa City, IANPI 1336346352

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by consulting fees: $21,800 of the $29,559 with a category attached, or 73.8%. Novartis accounts for 91.6% of it on its own, with 6 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $27,361, more than ten times the $1,926 reported in 2023. Among rheumatology clinicians in IA 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.

$29,559in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $642.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$27K
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$364
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$123
  • GSK$99
  • AstraZeneca$50
  • plus $19 from 1 others
$1,629,521in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 53 payments — averaging $30,746 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.

  • Novartis$1.5M
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$109K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$37K
  • AbbVie$27K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH$2K
  • Eli Lilly$1K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$21,80074%
  • Travel & lodging$4,89917%
  • Food & beverage$2,84110%
  • Education$190%

General payments by program year

23
24
25

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

$29,559 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 50 rheumatology providers in Iowa.

See all rheumatology providers in Iowa

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$28,070
Medicare patients
174
Services billed
324

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept31$217,879
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab24$163,233
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab24$161,288
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab13$98,083
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept12$67,247
SimponiGolimumab11$62,831
Mycophenolate Mofetil36$11,924
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate95$4,053
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium67$1,944
Colchicine19$1,727
Prednisone133$1,133
Leflunomide40$861
Allopurinol39$402
Gabapentin29$387
Azathioprine12$275

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
Johnson & JohnsonSimponi$364$62,83111 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 50 rheumatology providers in Iowa.

Other rheumatology in Iowa City

See the full list for Iowa

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →