RxDoctor Payments Data

Luke Carlstrom, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Chicago, ILNPI 1477574127

Payments from drug & device makers

$22,744in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 166 payments — averaging $137.01 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$19K
  • GSK$760
  • Inari Medical, Inc.$390
  • Sanofi$327
  • AstraZeneca$305
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$280
  • plus $1K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$1,2205%
  • Food & beverage$3,45215%
  • Education$18,07279%

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

$22,744 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 539 pulmonary disease providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$323,597
Medicare patients
796
Services billed
2,533

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
OfevNintedanib Esylate29$375,425
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter93$73,589
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr116$65,100
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide64$50,756
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl64$45,823
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol56$33,163
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate63$21,625
Spiriva HandihalerTiotropium Bromide11$14,193
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate17$8,048
Pirfenidone12$8,041
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide22$7,532
Budesonide-Formoterol FumarateBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate29$6,436
Wixela InhubFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol28$5,933
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol22$5,628
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate143$4,908

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
Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat$280$480,052174 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Incruse Ellipta, Arnuity Ellipta$760$181,629298 claims
AstraZenecaSymbicort$305$21,62563 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 539 pulmonary disease providers in Illinois.

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