James Rasmussen, MD
Critical Care Medicine · Salt Lake City, UTNPI 1770661712
Payments from drug & device makers
What this record shows
This record is dominated by food and beverage: $2,742 of the $3,144 with a category attached, or 87.2%. 24 manufacturers reported payments, led by AstraZeneca at 26.8% of the total. Reporting peaked in 2021 at $1,998 and has fallen 93.7% since, to $126 in 2023.
Across 169 payments — averaging $18.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- AstraZeneca$842
- Intuitive Surgical$476
- GSK$423
- Boehringer Ingelheim$359
- Boston Scientific$201
- Mylan Specialty L.p.$173
- plus $669 from 18 others
What the payments were for
- Travel & lodging$40213%
- Food & beverage$2,74287%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | 39 | $842 |
| Intuitive Surgical | 5 | $476 |
| GSK | 44 | $423 |
| Boehringer Ingelheim | 26 | $359 |
| Boston Scientific | 2 | $201 |
| Mylan Specialty L.p. | 13 | $173 |
| Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc. | 6 | $98 |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. | 5 | $82 |
| Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc. | 3 | $61 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $52 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 3 | $47 |
| Novartis | 3 | $44 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $42 |
| Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $40 |
| Jazz Pharmaceuticals Inc. | 2 | $37 |
| Pfizer | 2 | $35 |
| ZOLL Services LLC (a/k/a ZOLL Lifecor Corp) | 2 | $31 |
| Bayer | 1 | $17 |
| Inogen, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Insmed, Inc. | 1 | $16 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $13 |
| Chiesi USA, Inc. | 1 | $12 |
| Harmony Biosciences LLC | 1 | $12 |
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.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$383
- FASENRA$134
- BREZTRI$134
- TEZSPIRE$115
- GENERAL - THERAPIES$108
How this compares
$3,144 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 44 critical care medicine providers in Utah.
Medicare billing
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.
Other critical care medicine in Salt Lake City
- Laura FryeSalt Lake City$66K
- Theodore LiouSalt Lake City$14K
- James OrmeSalt Lake City$3K
- Jamis GougeSalt Lake City$1K
- Cheryl PirozziSalt Lake City$1K
- Nathan HattonSalt Lake City$763
- Nicholas LevinSalt Lake City$500
- Matthew GlickSalt Lake City$443
- Matthew MorrellSalt Lake City$392
- Benjamin TasevacSalt Lake City$338
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.