Paula McMurtry, MD
Rheumatology · Columbia, MONPI 1568467546
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 114 payments — averaging $13.90 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Pfizer$616
- Amgen$417
- Johnson & Johnson$155
- AbbVie$127
- UCB, Inc.$57
- Sanofi$54
- plus $160 from 9 others
What the payments were for
- Food & beverage$1,43090%
- Education$15510%
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
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.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Pfizer | 59 | $616 |
| Amgen | 27 | $417 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 2 | $155 |
| AbbVie | 9 | $127 |
| UCB, Inc. | 4 | $57 |
| Sanofi | 3 | $54 |
| AstraZeneca | 2 | $38 |
| Dexcom, Inc. | 1 | $26 |
| Amarin Pharma, Inc. | 1 | $18 |
| Lilly USA, LLC | 1 | $17 |
| E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C. | 1 | $15 |
| Novo Nordisk | 1 | $13 |
| Merck | 1 | $13 |
| Grifols USA, LLC | 1 | $12 |
| Organon | 1 | $6 |
How this compares
$1,585 in reported general payments places this provider in the 45th percentile of 134 rheumatology providers in Missouri.
Medicare billing
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
| Drug | Claims | Cost to plans & patients |
|---|---|---|
| Humira(Cf) PenAdalimumab | 107 | $1,091,646 |
| Enbrel SureclickEtanercept | 87 | $730,132 |
| Enbrel MiniEtanercept | 33 | $304,017 |
| Xeljanz XrTofacitinib Citrate | 41 | $279,155 |
| Leflunomide | 307 | $19,358 |
| Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate | 398 | $14,858 |
| MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium | 655 | $14,243 |
| Celecoxib | 162 | $9,180 |
| Prednisone | 882 | $6,125 |
| Mycophenolate Mofetil | 45 | $5,957 |
| Colchicine | 28 | $4,012 |
| Tramadol Hcl | 399 | $3,246 |
| Methylprednisolone | 41 | $1,311 |
| Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen | 60 | $1,160 |
| Sulindac | 52 | $1,122 |
Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.
Other rheumatology in Columbia
- Anthony TayColumbia$24K
- Chokkalingam SivaColumbia$18K
- John ErvinKansas City$18.7M
- David TrueSpringfield$15.8M
- Ghaith NoaisehKansas City$1.6M
- Anne WinklerCarthage$1.6M
- Alfred KimSaint Louis$1.2M
- Tina ShahKansas City$1.2M
- Sona KamatSaint Louis$931K
- Akgun InceSaint Louis$849K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.