RxDoctor Payments Data

Melinda Cusack, MD

Family Medicine · Big Rapids, MINPI 1932580909

Payments from drug & device makers

$753in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $25.95 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$362
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$115
  • Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLC$53
  • GSK$34
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$34
  • Novo Nordisk$31
  • plus $124 from 7 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$50567%
  • Education$24833%

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

23
25

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.

How this compares

$753 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$17,420
Medicare patients
51
Services billed
221

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
MounjaroTirzepatide34$46,034
JardianceEmpagliflozin27$34,404
EliquisApixaban21$32,672
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$24,929
OzempicSemaglutide15$22,409
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium34$2,992
Atorvastatin Calcium168$1,332
Duloxetine Hcl26$905
Omeprazole57$878
Pantoprazole Sodium60$833
Bupropion XlBupropion Hcl35$818
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate28$776
Gabapentin25$718
Levothyroxine Sodium98$717
Rosuvastatin Calcium58$699

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
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$17$46,03434 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$31$22,40915 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$16$2,99234 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 65th percentile of 3,945 family medicine providers in Michigan.

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