RxDoctor Payments Data

Lynn Meisles, MD

Rheumatology · Melrose Park, ILNPI 1538236740

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,983in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 52 payments — averaging $38.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$1K
  • Amgen$276
  • Johnson & Johnson$164
  • Lilly USA, LLC$111
  • UCB, Inc.$97
  • Pfizer$26
  • plus $23 from 1 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$75038%
  • Food & beverage$1,06854%
  • Education$1658%

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
AbbVie26$1,286
Amgen(2 entities)12$276
Johnson & Johnson5$164
Lilly USA, LLC4$111
UCB, Inc.3$97
Pfizer1$26
Radius Health, Inc.1$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

$1,983 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 287 rheumatology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$518,901
Medicare patients
176
Services billed
47,904

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
EnbrelEtanercept29$217,593
Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab11$86,893
KevzaraSarilumab11$49,208
ProliaDenosumab22$39,010
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium172$4,460
Leflunomide47$2,589
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate60$1,795
Prednisone132$1,122
Gabapentin62$948
Tramadol Hcl140$796
Meloxicam83$705
Duloxetine Hcl44$630
Amitriptyline Hcl15$476
Alendronate Sodium47$393
Sulfasalazine13$346

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
AmgenEnbrel, Prolia$276$256,60351 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 287 rheumatology providers in Illinois.

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