RxDoctor Payments Data

Shereen Chang, MD

Neurology · Cedar Rapids, IANPI 1508917857

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by food and beverage: $1,668 of the $2,046 with a category attached, or 81.5%. 29 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 31.1% of the total.

$2,046in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 110 payments — averaging $18.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$636
  • Pfizer$522
  • Biogen$80
  • Ipsen Biopharmaceuticals, Inc$78
  • Abbott$69
  • Amgen$67
  • plus $594 from 23 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$191%
  • Travel & lodging$35918%
  • Food & beverage$1,66882%

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

$2,046 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 132 neurology providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$322,719
Medicare patients
546
Services billed
23,948

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
NamzaricMemantine Hcl/Donepezil Hcl35$21,643
Emgality PenGalcanezumab-Gnlm24$21,595
UbrelvyUbrogepant11$11,008
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa223$9,582
Carbamazepine88$3,592
FingolimodFingolimod Hcl12$2,568
Levetiracetam97$2,406
Carbidopa-Levodopa ErCarbidopa/Levodopa30$2,326
Primidone76$1,482
Gabapentin49$1,079
Propranolol Hcl68$1,035
Ropinirole Hcl23$723
Lacosamide14$464
Lamotrigine35$447
Pregabalin25$398

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
AbbVieNamzaric, Ubrelvy$636$32,65146 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 132 neurology providers in Iowa.

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