RxDoctor Payments Data

Sarah Min, MD

Rheumatology · Lexington, KYNPI 1245610179

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 100.0% of the total across 30 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 14 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 15.2% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations. 2025 is the largest year on record at $470, 4.9 times the $96 reported in 2019. That places this record below the midpoint for rheumatology clinicians in KY, where the typical reported total is $2,001.

$774in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 30 payments — averaging $25.81 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$118
  • Novartis$106
  • UCB, Inc.$93
  • Mallinckrodt Hospital Products Inc.$70
  • Pfizer$62
  • Johnson & Johnson$62
  • plus $264 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$774100%

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

$774 in reported general payments places this provider in the 25th percentile of 81 rheumatology providers in Kentucky.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$118,011
Medicare patients
202
Services billed
6,533

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 SureclickEtanercept17$135,554
OtezlaApremilast19$88,946
Taltz AutoinjectorIxekizumab11$75,234
Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate375$8,335
Leflunomide78$4,669
MethotrexateMethotrexate Sodium141$2,323
Prednisone242$1,317
Colchicine17$998
Sulfasalazine18$422
Celecoxib44$416
Alendronate Sodium65$334
Allopurinol23$187
Diclofenac Sodium13$136
Folic Acid33$112
Meloxicam54$83

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
AmgenOtezla$25$88,94619 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 25th percentile of 81 rheumatology providers in Kentucky.

Other rheumatology in Lexington

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