RxDoctor Payments Data

Megan Kruse, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Cleveland, OHNPI 1760771554

Payments from drug & device makers

$520,421in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 183 payments — averaging $2843.83 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$261K
  • Novartis$118K
  • Merck$50K
  • Stemline Therapeutics Inc.$26K
  • Gilead$16K
  • Daiichi Sankyo Inc.$13K
  • plus $36K from 11 others
$274in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 1 payment — averaging $274.20 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.

  • Novartis$274

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$132,26880%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$18,78611%
  • Grants$3500%
  • Travel & lodging$8,4335%
  • Food & beverage$5,9194%
  • Education$1650%

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
AstraZeneca48$261,477
Novartis24$118,097
Merck17$49,982
Stemline Therapeutics Inc.19$26,483
Gilead27$16,087
Daiichi Sankyo Inc.13$12,668
Genentech USA, Inc.10$12,385
Puma Biotechnology, Inc.7$5,348
Seagen Inc.3$4,955
Eisai Inc.2$3,750
Eli Lilly1$3,163
Pfizer4$2,297
Bayer1$1,370
Immunomedics, Inc.1$1,300
GE HealthCare3$793
Tempus AI, Inc2$182
Lilly USA, LLC1$84

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

$520,421 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$39,394
Medicare patients
172
Services billed
561

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
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate42$681,449
IbrancePalbociclib41$611,268
MounjaroTirzepatide11$10,318
XareltoRivaroxaban15$8,151
Exemestane38$5,240
Anastrozole145$3,164
Tamoxifen Citrate54$1,907
Letrozole70$1,444
Oxycodone Hcl31$1,282
Gabapentin33$590
Ondansetron Hcl27$149
Zolpidem Tartrate21$40

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
NovartisKisqali$118,097$681,44942 claims
PfizerIbrance$2,297$611,26841 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$84$10,31811 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 450 hematology & oncology providers in Ohio.

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