RxDoctor Payments Data

Jeffrey Lee

San Diego, CANPI 1245488592

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $770 of the $1,040 with a category attached, or 74.1%. Boston Scientific accounts for 97.9% of it on its own, with 1 other manufacturer making up the rest. 2023 is the largest year on record at $654, 9.6 times the $68 reported in 2021.

$1,040in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 9 payments — averaging $115.52 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$1K
  • Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.$21
$601,501in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 3 payments — averaging $200,500 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.

  • Genentech, Inc.$602K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$77074%
  • Food & beverage$26926%

General payments by program year

21
22
23

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Boston Scientific8$1,018
Bausch & Lomb Americas Inc.1$21

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
Omeprazole36$395

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Where these figures come from

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