RxDoctor Payments Data

Kristin Poshkus, MD

Internal Medicine · East Greenwich, RINPI 1558317008

Payments from drug & device makers

$175in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 10 payments — averaging $17.47 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$52
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$23
  • Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.$23
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$17
  • Merck$16
  • GSK$15
  • plus $29 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$175100%

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

19
20

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

$175 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$28,852
Medicare patients
137
Services billed
602

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
OzempicSemaglutide37$35,472
EliquisApixaban34$32,756
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr16$9,704
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol16$6,578
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium43$4,333
Potassium Chloride22$3,692
Alendronate Sodium30$3,630
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl11$3,481
Atorvastatin Calcium251$3,017
Rosuvastatin Calcium210$2,794
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol17$2,211
Levothyroxine Sodium172$2,096
Amlodipine Besylate189$1,764
Losartan Potassium132$1,608
Omeprazole97$1,528

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
GSKAnoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$15$16,28232 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$52$4,33343 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 808 internal medicine providers in Rhode Island.

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