RxDoctor Payments Data

Martin Blidner, MD

Rheumatology · Wilkes Barre, PANPI 1598827792

Payments from drug & device makers

$36,864in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 553 payments — averaging $66.66 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Bristol Myers Squibb$16K
  • AbbVie$7K
  • Amgen$7K
  • Novartis$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Pfizer$633
  • plus $3K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7082%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$25,31769%
  • Travel & lodging$6712%
  • Food & beverage$10,10927%
  • Education$590%

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

$36,864 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$1,748,320
Medicare patients
381
Services billed
113,219

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
Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate28$162,065
RinvoqUpadacitinib20$129,500
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept12$86,979
KevzaraSarilumab16$69,375
Orencia ClickjectAbatacept13$69,264
SaphneloAnifrolumab-Fnia11$57,738
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg14$34,804
ProliaDenosumab11$19,413
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate208$7,809
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium332$7,201
Leflunomide101$5,499
Prednisone522$4,366
Febuxostat22$3,713
Celecoxib101$3,592
Mycophenolate Mofetil11$2,535

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
AbbVieRinvoq$7,143$129,50020 claims
SanofiKevzara$123$69,37516 claims
AstraZenecaSaphnelo$108$57,73811 claims
AmgenEvenity (2 Syringes), Prolia$7,016$54,21725 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 80th percentile of 351 rheumatology providers in Pennsylvania.

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