RxDoctor Payments Data

Pegah Afra, MD

Neurology · Worcester, MANPI 1144376831

Payments from drug & device makers

$138,797in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 19 payments — averaging $7305.10 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Livanova USA, Inc.$115K
  • UCB SA$22K
  • UCB, Inc.$843
  • UCB Biosciences Inc.$700

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$1,45087%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$1006%
  • Food & beverage$1087%

General payments by program year

19
20
24

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
Livanova USA, Inc.14$115,440
UCB SA2$21,814
UCB, Inc.2$843
UCB Biosciences Inc.1$700

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

$138,797 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 761 neurology providers in Massachusetts.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$50,686
Medicare patients
213
Services billed
377

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
XcopriCenobamate81$146,415
OnfiClobazam23$68,049
BriviactBrivaracetam33$45,026
FycompaPerampanel29$32,715
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate14$17,508
NayzilamMidazolam24$14,754
Depakote SprinkleDivalproex Sodium12$13,146
Lamotrigine ErLamotrigine35$8,726
Carbamazepine ErCarbamazepine30$5,207
Tegretol XrCarbamazepine12$4,410
DilantinPhenytoin Sodium Extended13$4,113
Levetiracetam96$3,774
Zonisamide57$2,810
Divalproex Sodium35$2,752
Lacosamide69$2,567

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
UCB, Inc.Briviact, Nayzilam$843$59,78157 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 80th percentile of 761 neurology providers in Massachusetts.

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