RxDoctor Payments Data

Jake Turrentine, MD

Dermatology · Hickory, NCNPI 1386934933

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $142,520 of the $154,112 with a category attached, or 92.5%. Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc. accounts for 74.6% of it on its own, with 15 other manufacturers making up the rest. 2025 is the largest year on record at $55,519, more than ten times the $552 reported in 2019. Among dermatology clinicians in NC 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.

$154,112in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 191 payments — averaging $806.87 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$115K
  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$28K
  • AbbVie$10K
  • Biofrontera Inc.$478
  • Pfizer$256
  • Johnson & Johnson$232
  • plus $738 from 10 others
$237,032in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $7407.25 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.

  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$92K
  • Amgen$62K
  • Eli Lilly$28K
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$26K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$16K
  • Pfizer$12K

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$142,52092%
  • Travel & lodging$7,5315%
  • Food & beverage$3,6412%
  • Education$4210%

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

$154,112 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 475 dermatology providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,329,680
Medicare patients
1,249
Services billed
20,231

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
Skyrizi PenRisankizumab-Rzaa18$370,746
Cosentyx Sensoready (2 Pens)Secukinumab26$192,642
Dupixent PenDupilumab31$130,792
Humira PenAdalimumab11$74,496
OtezlaApremilast12$57,433
Dupixent SyringeDupilumab12$44,361
Clobetasol Propionate261$11,470
Doxycycline Hyclate190$4,881
Tacrolimus31$4,166
Fluorouracil49$3,492
Metronidazole55$2,850
Ketoconazole183$2,771
Mycophenolate Mofetil22$1,701
Triamcinolone Acetonide120$1,422
Calcipotriene11$1,398

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
AmgenOtezla$77$57,43312 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 475 dermatology providers in North Carolina.

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