RxDoctor Payments Data

Lucas Davanzo, MD

Pain Medicine · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1437544905

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,150in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 77 payments — averaging $66.88 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$3K
  • Boston Scientific$612
  • Medtronic$556
  • Curonix LLC$386
  • Nalu Medical, Inc.$151
  • Vertiflex, Inc.$125
  • plus $116 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,35326%
  • Food & beverage$3,79774%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Abbott30$3,204
Boston Scientific18$612
Medtronic(2 entities)16$556
Curonix LLC6$386
Nalu Medical, Inc.3$151
Vertiflex, Inc.1$125
Nevro Corp.2$93
Stryker1$23

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

$5,150 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 294 pain medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$44,058
Medicare patients
149
Services billed
435

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
Celecoxib84$4,821
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen161$3,591
Gabapentin256$2,923
Lidocaine36$2,386
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen83$2,156
Pregabalin93$2,006
Morphine Sulfate ErMorphine Sulfate14$497
Duloxetine Hcl56$418
Methocarbamol41$348
Tramadol Hcl30$319
Cyclobenzaprine Hcl31$286
Ibuprofen28$270
Naproxen18$110
Tizanidine Hcl11$78
Meloxicam24$47

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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