RxDoctor Payments Data

Maria Greenwald

Rancho Mirage, CANPI 1003899758

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by speaking fees: $940 of the $1,277 with a category attached, or 73.6%. Pfizer accounts for 91.4% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,021 and has fallen 96.2% since, to $39 in 2025.

$1,277in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $79.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$70
  • AbbVie$14
  • Novartis$13
  • Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.$12
$5,898,507in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 534 payments — averaging $11,046 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Eli Lilly$2.7M
  • Gilead$837K
  • AbbVie$812K
  • Pfizer$434K
  • Novartis$401K
  • Amgen$323K
  • plus $378K from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$94074%
  • Food & beverage$25420%
  • Education$826%

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
Pfizer11$1,167
Johnson & Johnson1$70
AbbVie2$14
Novartis1$13
Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc.1$12

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.

Most prescribed under Part D

DrugClaimsCost to plans & patients
EnbrelEtanercept12$83,517
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium13$417

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Where these figures come from

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