RxDoctor Payments Data

Joanne Ruch, MD

Internal Medicine · Lakewood, CONPI 1659447787

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,792in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 224 payments — averaging $16.93 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$556
  • GSK$373
  • AbbVie$334
  • AstraZeneca$333
  • Amgen$234
  • Lilly USA, LLC$200
  • plus $2K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,69397%
  • Education$993%

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

$3,792 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$154,966
Medicare patients
268
Services billed
1,850

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
EliquisApixaban39$50,587
XareltoRivaroxaban32$30,583
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter13$22,823
Levothyroxine Sodium412$4,606
Gabapentin159$4,354
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol12$3,199
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate12$2,839
Omeprazole104$2,651
Celecoxib102$2,394
Atorvastatin Calcium214$2,288
Estradiol22$2,175
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog18$2,108
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl40$1,994
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium39$1,662
Rosuvastatin Calcium143$1,650

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$197$50,58739 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$115$30,58332 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta$373$22,82313 claims
Amneal Pharmaceuticals LLCLevothyroxine Sodium$114$4,606412 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$333$2,83912 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$334$1,66239 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 1,430 internal medicine providers in Colorado.

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