RxDoctor Payments Data

John Ashkar, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1073568184

Payments from drug & device makers

$44,263in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 950 payments — averaging $46.59 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$15K
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$5K
  • AstraZeneca$5K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$4K
  • GSK$2K
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$1K
  • plus $11K from 42 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$3,98014%
  • Travel & lodging$7793%
  • Food & beverage$23,50680%
  • Education$6762%
  • Gifts$4101%

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

$44,263 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$677,886
Medicare patients
648
Services billed
6,865

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
OpsumitMacitentan23$290,117
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter209$236,497
MounjaroTirzepatide110$166,745
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol141$164,223
JardianceEmpagliflozin101$145,081
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol193$143,718
OzempicSemaglutide61$121,942
EliquisApixaban129$116,602
Omeprazole-Sodium BicarbonateOmeprazole/Sodium Bicarbonate47$114,493
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate72$78,428
TradjentaLinagliptin59$70,761
SantylCollagenase Clostridium Hist.43$57,616
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr60$48,525
TezspireTezepelumab-Ekko11$48,076
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl59$43,874

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta$2,357$440,184486 claims
Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc.Opsumit$949$290,11723 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Spiriva Respimat, Jentadueto, Jentadueto Xr$4,443$278,134229 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Tezspire, Farxiga, Symbicort$4,564$248,764226 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$172$189,212121 claims
PfizerEliquis, Retacrit$886$141,532180 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$52$121,94261 claims
MerckJanuvia$277$78,42872 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Avycaz$112$70,73752 claims
Johnson & JohnsonProcrit, Xarelto$22$66,87863 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 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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