RxDoctor Payments Data

Michael Purkis, MD

Family Medicine · Tucson, AZNPI 1942258694

Payments from drug & device makers

$344in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 16 payments — averaging $21.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Boston Scientific$95
  • GSK$48
  • Novo Nordisk$38
  • AbbVie$30
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$26
  • Nevro Corp.$24
  • plus $82 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$344100%

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

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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

$344 in reported general payments places this provider in the 55th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$106,906
Medicare patients
360
Services billed
3,269

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
EliquisApixaban57$63,892
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol40$52,332
JardianceEmpagliflozin32$42,913
XareltoRivaroxaban23$36,962
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate18$29,344
ProliaDenosumab14$24,594
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl13$21,577
TrulicityDulaglutide14$15,245
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol22$10,822
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate20$6,859
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate12$5,643
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol13$5,437
Atorvastatin Calcium629$5,059
Levothyroxine Sodium481$4,576
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate137$3,694

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$15$59,19160 claims
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Combivent Respimat$26$48,55644 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$48$10,82222 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$30$3,33345 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCLantus$16$2,98213 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 55th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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