RxDoctor Payments Data

Kyle Walsh, MD

Emergency Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1336439678

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $38,600 of the $45,753 with a category attached, or 84.4%. AstraZeneca accounts for 69.0% of it on its own, with 3 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2022 at $17,124 and has fallen 86.2% since, to $2,368 in 2024. Among emergency medicine clinicians in OH with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$45,753in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 64 payments — averaging $714.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$32K
  • Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC$13K
  • Jan Medical Inc.$700
  • Abbott$216
$177,861in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $88,930 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Novartis$178K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7002%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$38,60084%
  • Travel & lodging$4,49910%
  • Food & beverage$1,7384%
  • Education$2160%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
AstraZeneca(2 entities)42$31,563
Portola Pharmaceuticals, LLC20$13,274
Jan Medical Inc.1$700
Abbott1$216

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

$45,753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,431 emergency medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$16,911
Medicare patients
74
Services billed
130

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.

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