RxDoctor Payments Data

James Creech, MD

Family Medicine · Estherville, IANPI 1336190685

Payments from drug & device makers

$545in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $15.58 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$117
  • Johnson & Johnson$95
  • Novartis$90
  • AstraZeneca$62
  • Novo Nordisk$46
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$38
  • plus $97 from 6 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$42879%
  • Education$11721%

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

$545 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,357 family medicine providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$22,185
Medicare patients
81
Services billed
292

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
EliquisApixaban125$74,320
JardianceEmpagliflozin30$34,878
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate15$18,519
XareltoRivaroxaban25$14,330
TrulicityDulaglutide16$14,049
Basaglar Kwikpen U-100Insulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$11,600
AbrysvoRsv Vacc, Pref A And Pref B/Pf16$5,161
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog38$4,418
Potassium Chloride190$4,323
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf17$3,729
Arnuity ElliptaFluticasone Furoate11$2,253
Tamsulosin Hcl123$2,166
Omeprazole309$2,127
Metoprolol Succinate155$2,115
Levothyroxine Sodium315$2,087

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$12$34,87830 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$95$14,33025 claims
GSKShingrix, Arnuity Ellipta$11$5,98228 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 70th percentile of 1,357 family medicine providers in Iowa.

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