RxDoctor Payments Data

John Costa, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Brooklyn, NYNPI 1700947454

Payments from drug & device makers

$4,913in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 116 payments — averaging $42.35 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boehringer Ingelheim$2K
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$957
  • AstraZeneca$849
  • GSK$366
  • Pfizer$331
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$247
  • plus $611 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$4,913100%

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

$4,913 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$64,800
Medicare patients
98
Services billed
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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter70$52,016
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate52$35,807
OzempicSemaglutide35$32,416
EliquisApixaban19$17,723
JardianceEmpagliflozin12$12,696
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl20$11,108
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$11,091
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate14$4,493
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$2,594
Humalog Kwikpen U-100Insulin Lispro11$2,206
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog14$1,995
Alprazolam83$1,659
Ezetimibe73$1,608
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate49$1,543
Montelukast Sodium123$1,222

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$366$63,10791 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet$60$46,91472 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$128$32,41635 claims
PfizerEliquis$331$17,72319 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$1,553$12,69612 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 70th percentile of 1,115 pulmonary disease providers in New York.

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