RxDoctor Payments Data

Joan Luo, MD

Pain Medicine · Gaithersburg, MDNPI 1851376651

Payments from drug & device makers

$987in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $61.69 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$500
  • Dexcom, Inc.$135
  • Penumbra, Inc.$129
  • Gilead$65
  • Novo Nordisk$62
  • Tactile Systems Technology Inc$57
  • plus $39 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$987100%

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

$987 in reported general payments places this provider in the 40th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$293,081
Medicare patients
275
Services billed
45,692

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
ProliaDenosumab117$208,697
Diclofenac Sodium209$12,206
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen80$1,381
Gabapentin155$1,171
Tramadol Hcl158$802
Pantoprazole Sodium129$781
Celecoxib23$601
Meloxicam167$486
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen18$368
Pregabalin17$305
Allopurinol19$249
Alendronate Sodium19$202
Oxycodone Hcl12$85
Metformin Hcl14$74
Omeprazole11$53

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
AmgenProlia$500$208,697117 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 40th percentile of 144 pain medicine providers in Maryland.

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