RxDoctor Payments Data

Kaushik Patel, MD

Hospitalist · Allentown, PANPI 1386937381

Payments from drug & device makers

$624in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 33 payments — averaging $18.91 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$128
  • Novartis$119
  • AstraZeneca$98
  • Johnson & Johnson$72
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$35
  • Pfizer$29
  • plus $145 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$624100%

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.

How this compares

$624 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 1,287 hospitalist providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$77,240
Medicare patients
339
Services billed
827

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
EliquisApixaban50$18,647
XareltoRivaroxaban23$7,773
Mirabegron ErMirabegron11$3,036
Levetiracetam22$1,748
Amiodarone Hcl12$1,464
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol11$1,327
Tamsulosin Hcl33$837
Atorvastatin Calcium45$702
Sucralfate13$597
Pantoprazole Sodium33$594
Levothyroxine Sodium62$558
Pravastatin Sodium15$541
Losartan Potassium18$499
Metoprolol Succinate18$417
Escitalopram Oxalate13$377

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
PfizerEliquis$29$18,64750 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$72$7,77323 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 85th percentile of 1,287 hospitalist providers in Pennsylvania.

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