RxDoctor Payments Data

Scott Rasmussen

Internal Medicine · Lincoln, NENPI 1013920180

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by travel and lodging: $860 of the $1,184 with a category attached, or 72.6%. Every reported general payment came from a single manufacturer, Merck.

$1,184in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 11 payments — averaging $107.67 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$1K
$38,067,321in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 257 payments — averaging $148,122 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Vertex$15.4M
  • Regeneron$7.2M
  • Janssen Research & Development, LLC$6.6M
  • Merck$3.6M
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$3.1M
  • Sage Therapeutics, LLC$1.1M
  • plus $982K from 3 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$86073%
  • Food & beverage$32427%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Merck11$1,184

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

$1,184 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 570 internal medicine providers in Nebraska.

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