RxDoctor Payments Data

Helen Ostro-Brown, MD

Family Medicine · Royal Oak, MINPI 1215027578

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,000in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 116 payments — averaging $17.24 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$448
  • AbbVie$277
  • GSK$203
  • Lilly USA, LLC$185
  • Pfizer$140
  • AstraZeneca$121
  • plus $627 from 19 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,000100%

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

$2,000 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$72,187
Medicare patients
137
Services billed
869

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
OzempicSemaglutide60$63,884
EliquisApixaban15$22,550
JardianceEmpagliflozin20$19,015
Atorvastatin Calcium259$4,678
Levothyroxine Sodium202$2,761
Estradiol31$2,634
Omeprazole91$1,707
Metoprolol Succinate92$1,584
Losartan Potassium127$1,485
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium19$1,463
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate44$1,324
Alendronate Sodium107$1,285
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl40$1,062
Potassium Chloride35$1,050
Lisinopril129$1,003

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$448$63,88460 claims
PfizerEliquis$140$22,55015 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$21$19,01520 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$277$1,46319 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 80th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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