RxDoctor Payments Data

Mohammed Afzal, MD

Neurology · Rockford, ILNPI 1891767224

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,865in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 288 payments — averaging $20.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$507
  • Biogen$379
  • Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.$343
  • Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$324
  • Argenx US, Inc.$284
  • AbbVie$269
  • plus $4K from 43 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$321%
  • Food & beverage$5,63496%
  • Education$1993%

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

$5,865 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 790 neurology providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$173,510
Medicare patients
628
Services billed
1,595

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
CopaxoneGlatiramer Acetate13$91,908
Memantine Hcl670$13,308
Dalfampridine ErDalfampridine19$7,450
RivastigmineRivastigmine Tartrate107$6,424
Donepezil Hcl667$6,093
Levetiracetam285$5,824
Pramipexole ErPramipexole Di-Hcl12$5,138
Pyridostigmine Bromide67$4,323
Memantine Hcl ErMemantine Hcl36$3,958
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine48$3,852
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa250$3,737
Protriptyline Hcl17$3,427
Gabapentin248$2,772
Primidone154$2,610
Rivastigmine12$2,502

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
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Copaxone$343$91,90813 claims
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$25$99182 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 70th percentile of 790 neurology providers in Illinois.

Other neurology in Rockford

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