RxDoctor Payments Data

Nikole Scalera, MD

Infectious Disease · Akron, OHNPI 1982724415

Payments from drug & device makers

$2,325in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 122 payments — averaging $19.06 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Gilead$1K
  • AbbVie$288
  • Johnson & Johnson$229
  • Viiv Healthcare Company$91
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$76
  • Janssen Products, LP$60
  • plus $130 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$2,26497%
  • Education$603%

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

$2,325 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 308 infectious disease providers in Ohio.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$29,072
Medicare patients
77
Services billed
284

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 Ala55$206,292
TriumeqAbacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi27$95,911
TivicayDolutegravir Sodium15$59,318
IsentressRaltegravir Potassium26$53,922
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam17$36,511
PrezistaDarunavir11$23,266
Darunavir30$18,500
ErtapenemErtapenem Sodium31$15,761
Itraconazole12$8,414
Etravirine11$8,122
Daptomycin12$4,855
Ritonavir32$3,825
Emtricitabine22$2,609
Cefadroxil32$1,248
Doxycycline Hyclate28$1,144

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$1,450$242,80372 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyTriumeq, Tivicay$91$155,22942 claims
MerckIsentress$39$53,92226 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 308 infectious disease providers in Ohio.

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