RxDoctor Payments Data

Michelle Caster, MD

Family Medicine · Cleveland, OHNPI 1235519166

Payments from drug & device makers

$924in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $20.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$155
  • Gilead$129
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$126
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$118
  • Merck$68
  • Abbott$63
  • plus $265 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$924100%

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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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

$924 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$11,025
Medicare patients
47
Services billed
124

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
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala37$155,535
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium48$138,374
SymtuzaDarunavir/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alaf12$75,143
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine20$73,352
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam34$70,902
JardianceEmpagliflozin21$12,636
Etravirine11$11,612
EliquisApixaban17$10,595
Estradiol (Twice Weekly)Estradiol33$3,300
Atorvastatin Calcium188$1,744
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate43$1,080
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl19$782
Estradiol32$707
Amlodipine Besylate108$704
ProgesteroneProgesterone, Micronized13$651

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
GileadBiktarvy, Descovy$129$226,43771 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTivicay, Juluca$126$211,72668 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 60th percentile of 3,983 family medicine providers in Ohio.

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