RxDoctor Payments Data

Richard Schultz, MD

Otolaryngology · Traverse City, MINPI 1386612935

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,561in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 72 payments — averaging $49.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$2K
  • Aerin Medical Inc.$961
  • Intersect ENT, Inc.$229
  • GSK$218
  • Acclarent, Inc$121
  • Stryker$81
  • plus $316 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$75021%
  • Travel & lodging$54015%
  • Food & beverage$2,24363%
  • Education$281%

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.

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

$3,561 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 257 otolaryngology providers in Michigan.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,139
Medicare patients
451
Services billed
2,101

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
NucalaMepolizumab13$48,051
Ciprofloxacin-DexamethasoneCiprofloxacin Hcl/Dexameth46$5,340
DuleraMometasone/Formoterol15$4,956
Ipratropium Bromide136$4,772
Neomycin-Polymyxin-HcNeomycin/Polymyxin B/Hydrocort16$873
Fluocinolone Acetonide Oil21$869
Fluticasone Propionate74$855
Amoxicillin-Clavulanate PotassAmoxicillin/Potassium Clav33$649
Azelastine Hcl26$505
Ofloxacin20$423
Montelukast Sodium13$415
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen43$379
Cephalexin30$153
Prednisone34$131
Clindamycin Hcl12$128

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
GSKNucala$218$48,05113 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 257 otolaryngology providers in Michigan.

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