RxDoctor Payments Data

Patrick Carpenter

Otolaryngology · Roanoke, VANPI 1154718179

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — education (42.0%), travel and lodging and food and beverage — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Intuitive Surgical accounts for 66.7% of it on its own, with 5 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2023 at $3,934 and has fallen 87.1% since, to $508 in 2025.

$5,949in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 25 payments — averaging $237.97 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Intuitive Surgical$4K
  • AbbVie$1K
  • Johnson & Johnson$559
  • Acera Surgical, Inc.$166
  • Stryker$106
  • Polarityte, Inc.$50

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$1,00017%
  • Travel & lodging$1,36723%
  • Food & beverage$1,08218%
  • Education$2,50042%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Intuitive Surgical12$3,967
AbbVie2$1,101
Johnson & Johnson(2 entities)8$559
Acera Surgical, Inc.1$166
Stryker1$106
Polarityte, Inc.1$50

What the payments were tied to

Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.

How this compares

$5,949 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 241 otolaryngology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$92,283
Medicare patients
168
Services billed
430

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
Omeprazole66$552
Pentoxifylline11$212
Pantoprazole Sodium42$167
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav16$132
Oxycodone Hcl28$116

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

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