RxDoctor Payments Data

Juan Schmukler, MD

Rheumatology · Chicago, ILNPI 1538423975

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,538in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 82 payments — averaging $18.76 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$689
  • Amgen$545
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$205
  • Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC$28
  • Johnson & Johnson$28
  • Mallinckrodt Enterprises LLC$25
  • plus $17 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,535100%
  • Education$40%

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

$1,538 in reported general payments places this provider in the 50th percentile of 287 rheumatology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$41,574
Medicare patients
179
Services billed
516

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
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab91$683,421
KrystexxaPegloticase21$565,168
RinvoqUpadacitinib33$202,301
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept26$187,016
EnbrelEtanercept14$98,953
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab21$90,407
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate14$73,849
ForteoTeriparatide16$69,039
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept13$66,953
KevzaraSarilumab11$47,488
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium74$3,046
Leflunomide29$2,452
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate49$1,741
Colchicine20$1,521
Prednisone213$1,521

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
AmgenKrystexxa, Enbrel$545$664,12135 claims
AbbVieRinvoq$689$202,30133 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 50th percentile of 287 rheumatology providers in Illinois.

Other rheumatology in Chicago

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