RxDoctor Payments Data

Kasey Buchanan

Family · Dalton, GANPI 1972187607

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,928in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 364 payments — averaging $19.03 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$2K
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$838
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$626
  • Johnson & Johnson$458
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$381
  • Madrigal Pharmaceuticals$354
  • plus $2K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$6,918100%
  • Education$100%

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

$6,928 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$36,567
Medicare patients
285
Services billed
488

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
LinzessLinaclotide161$141,644
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase42$127,947
XifaxanRifaximin39$125,905
ZenpepLipase/Protease/Amylase18$63,060
Dexlansoprazole DrDexlansoprazole47$13,374
Mesalamine16$7,641
NexiumEsomeprazole Magnesium13$6,732
Esomeprazole Magnesium105$4,343
Pantoprazole Sodium410$4,120
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)38$3,456
Colestipol Hcl40$2,914
Famotidine206$2,345
Ursodiol25$2,219
Lubiprostone18$1,785
Lactulose34$1,130

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
AbbVieLinzess, Creon$1,774$269,591203 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$838$125,90539 claims
Aimmune Therapeutics, Inc.Zenpep$217$63,06018 claims
AstraZenecaNexium$38$6,73213 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 95th percentile of 6,258 family providers in Georgia.

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