RxDoctor Payments Data

Jennifer Vazquez

Primary Care · Chicago, ILNPI 1598302341

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 179 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 35 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 14.9% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $1,558, 2.5 times the $617 reported in 2021. Among primary care clinicians in IL with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 10% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$5,490in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 179 payments — averaging $30.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$818
  • AstraZeneca$564
  • GSK$368
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$355
  • Bayer$340
  • Boston Scientific$334
  • plus $3K from 29 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,490100%

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

$5,490 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 150 primary care providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$86,561
Medicare patients
301
Services billed
1,121

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
EliquisApixaban103$88,316
OzempicSemaglutide31$43,349
JardianceEmpagliflozin43$39,025
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate25$25,525
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$21,328
XareltoRivaroxaban14$19,163
EntrestoSacubitril/Valsartan11$4,556
Atorvastatin Calcium295$3,316
Levothyroxine Sodium247$3,312
Amlodipine Besylate243$2,251
Metoprolol Succinate120$1,705
Gabapentin90$1,349
Pantoprazole Sodium114$1,346
Tamsulosin Hcl74$1,273
Bethanechol Chloride15$1,229

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
PfizerEliquis$117$88,316103 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$818$43,34931 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$206$39,02543 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$564$21,32815 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$177$19,16314 claims
NovartisEntresto$98$4,55611 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 90th percentile of 150 primary care providers in Illinois.

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