RxDoctor Payments Data

Jorge Cavero, MD

Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1093703209

Payments from drug & device makers

$249in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $22.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$68
  • Digital Diagnostics Inc.$58
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$28
  • Abbott$25
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$21
  • AstraZeneca$19
  • plus $29 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$249100%

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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25

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

$249 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$48,160
Medicare patients
154
Services billed
521

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
OtezlaApremilast14$65,896
OzempicSemaglutide38$43,480
XareltoRivaroxaban24$38,909
EliquisApixaban28$38,210
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate25$36,195
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$24,580
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf60$13,604
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog39$6,476
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate17$5,639
Atorvastatin Calcium678$5,327
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate121$4,223
Tamsulosin Hcl307$4,117
Adacel TdapDiph,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac/Pf52$3,709
Omeprazole295$3,617
Losartan Potassium371$3,517

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
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$14$38,90924 claims
PfizerEliquis$68$38,21028 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance$21$24,58027 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$19$5,63917 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$15$1,85613 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 55th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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