RxDoctor Payments Data

Samuel Kim, MD

Rheumatology · Lawrenceville, GANPI 1629386388

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $21,304 of the $23,733 with a category attached, or 89.8%. 38 manufacturers reported payments, led by Amgen at 27.2% of the total.

$23,733in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,215 payments — averaging $19.53 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$6K
  • AbbVie$4K
  • Johnson & Johnson$2K
  • Novartis$2K
  • UCB, Inc.$1K
  • AstraZeneca$918
  • plus $7K from 32 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$2,2509%
  • Travel & lodging$190%
  • Food & beverage$21,30490%
  • Education$1601%

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

$23,733 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 177 rheumatology providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$151,402
Medicare patients
148
Services billed
5,630

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
Enbrel SureclickEtanercept11$82,108
BenlystaBelimumab11$60,784
RemicadeInfliximab12$58,292
ProliaDenosumab27$46,762
TymlosAbaloparatide11$42,259
Evenity (2 Syringes)Romosozumab-Aqqg14$33,431
Pilocarpine Hcl23$2,649
Mycophenolate Mofetil13$1,993
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate28$1,311
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium61$1,167
Tizanidine Hcl93$853
Prednisone119$700
Gabapentin29$520
Duloxetine Hcl17$412
Pregabalin13$358

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
AmgenProlia, Evenity (2 Syringes)$6,460$80,19341 claims
GSKBenlysta$900$60,78411 claims
Johnson & JohnsonRemicade$2,389$58,29212 claims
Radius Health, Inc.Tymlos$758$42,25911 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 85th percentile of 177 rheumatology providers in Georgia.

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