RxDoctor Payments Data

Rusheng Zhang, MD

Neurology · Birmingham, ALNPI 1750408266

Payments from drug & device makers

$759in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 39 payments — averaging $19.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Johnson & Johnson$541
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$91
  • Alkermes, Inc.$88
  • Takeda Pharmaceuticals U.S.A., Inc.$14
  • AbbVie$14
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$11

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$759100%

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.

How this compares

$759 in reported general payments places this provider in the 30th percentile of 255 neurology providers in Alabama.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$33,223
Medicare patients
111
Services billed
407

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
Invega SustennaPaliperidone Palmitate196$535,059
Abilify MaintenaAripiprazole78$234,957
IngrezzaValbenazine Tosylate19$159,406
Risperdal ConstaRisperidone Microspheres13$16,907
Fluphenazine Decanoate135$15,592
Lurasidone Hcl20$10,207
Quetiapine Fumarate302$7,864
Aripiprazole106$6,888
Haloperidol141$5,302
Haloperidol Decanoate166$5,145
Benztropine Mesylate266$5,094
Ziprasidone Hcl51$4,587
Fluoxetine Hcl75$4,339
Trazodone Hcl260$3,705
Divalproex Sodium122$3,610

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
Johnson & JohnsonInvega Sustenna, Risperdal Consta$541$551,966209 claims
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.Abilify Maintena$11$234,95778 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 30th percentile of 255 neurology providers in Alabama.

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