RxDoctor Payments Data

Plakyil Joseph, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Cranston, RINPI 1821070418

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — consulting fees (47.5%), food and beverage and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. Novartis accounts for 61.3% of it on its own, with 41 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $7,541 and has fallen 99.0% since, to $75 in 2025.

$9,038in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 161 payments — averaging $56.13 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$6K
  • Johnson & Johnson$485
  • AstraZeneca$432
  • Eisai Inc.$248
  • Merck$240
  • Bristol Myers Squibb$218
  • plus $2K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$4,29047%
  • Travel & lodging$8169%
  • Food & beverage$3,62840%
  • Education$3043%

General payments by program year

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25

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.

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

$9,038 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 68 hematology & oncology providers in Rhode Island.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$55,159
Medicare patients
189
Services billed
606

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
CalquenceAcalabrutinib Maleate47$623,545
TagrissoOsimertinib Mesylate33$540,167
IbrancePalbociclib27$380,873
Lenalidomide26$281,100
LonsurfTrifluridine/Tipiracil Hcl20$267,731
XtandiEnzalutamide22$231,198
RevlimidLenalidomide12$205,556
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate22$193,081
Abiraterone Acetate87$141,306
EliquisApixaban75$45,853
XareltoRivaroxaban25$14,544
TrelstarTriptorelin Pamoate12$10,356
Hydroxyurea53$1,424
Oxycodone Hcl41$1,001
Gabapentin44$937

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
AstraZenecaCalquence, Tagrisso$432$1,163,71280 claims
PfizerIbrance, Eliquis$174$426,726102 claims
Taiho Oncology, Inc.Lonsurf$86$267,73120 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncXtandi$29$231,19822 claims
Bristol Myers SquibbRevlimid$218$205,55612 claims
NovartisKisqali$5,537$193,08122 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$485$14,54425 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 68 hematology & oncology providers in Rhode Island.

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