RxDoctor Payments Data

Ira Zucker, MD

Gastroenterology · Emerson, NJNPI 1730160870

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,541in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $20.02 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Medtronic$205
  • Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.$174
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$127
  • Amgen$117
  • Asensus Surgical, Inc.$101
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$100
  • plus $719 from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,52599%
  • Education$171%

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.

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

$1,541 in reported general payments places this provider in the 35th percentile of 701 gastroenterology providers in New Jersey.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$132,023
Medicare patients
418
Services billed
1,163

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
LinzessLinaclotide18$13,000
EliquisApixaban12$11,317
ClenpiqSod Picosulf/Mag Ox/Citric Ac60$10,300
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$9,508
Praluent PenAlirocumab13$6,765
Mesalamine24$5,461
Pantoprazole Sodium192$3,068
Balsalazide Disodium20$2,680
Sod Sulf-Potass Sulf-Mag SulfSodium, Potassium,mag Sulfates34$2,263
Famotidine146$2,090
Atorvastatin Calcium214$1,973
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir14$1,429
Escitalopram Oxalate31$720
Valsartan14$679
Omeprazole58$671

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
AbbVieLinzess$83$13,00018 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$14$12,74626 claims
Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc.Clenpiq$174$10,30060 claims
MerckJanuvia$84$9,50815 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 35th percentile of 701 gastroenterology providers in New Jersey.

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