RxDoctor Payments Data

Marc Wahlquist, MD

Sports Medicine · Cincinnati, OHNPI 1417039801

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,607in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $86.89 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Zimmer Biomet$2K
  • Johnson & Johnson$692
  • Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$82
  • Vertex$36
  • Stryker$27
  • ERMI LLC$15

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$91935%
  • Food & beverage$55321%
  • Education$1,13544%

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
Zimmer Biomet16$1,755
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)7$692
Medical Device Business Services, Inc.3$82
Vertex2$36
Stryker1$27
ERMI LLC1$15

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

$2,607 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 278 sports medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$272,423
Medicare patients
459
Services billed
11,061

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
Celecoxib32$973
Ibuprofen82$593
Oxycodone Hcl86$316
Promethazine Hcl62$299
Methocarbamol44$249
Dexamethasone77$248
Diclofenac Sodium22$161
Meloxicam31$72
Amoxicillin24$14

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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