RxDoctor Payments Data

Lindsay Ledwich, DO

Rheumatology · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1124227103

Payments from drug & device makers

$36,803in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,541 payments — averaging $23.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$10K
  • AbbVie$8K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • UCB, Inc.$2K
  • Pfizer$2K
  • Novartis$1K
  • plus $9K from 38 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,5504%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$10,75029%
  • Food & beverage$24,02165%
  • Education$4821%

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

$36,803 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$22,937
Medicare patients
82
Services billed
406

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) PenAdalimumab15$182,681
KineretAnakinra13$71,235
Actemra ActpenTocilizumab11$53,036
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate299$11,325
Cromolyn Sodium11$3,417
Sulfasalazine92$1,965
CholestyramineCholestyramine (With Sugar)40$1,879
Doxycycline Hyclate77$1,686
Prednisone293$1,620
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium44$1,447
Celecoxib30$1,170
Colesevelam Hcl22$1,096
Minocycline Hcl44$999
Calcitonin-SalmonCalcitonin,salmon,synthetic11$910
Leflunomide20$908

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
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.Colchicine$23$38712 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 80th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

Other rheumatology in Pittsburgh

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