RxDoctor Payments Data

Sherry Kelchen

Nurse Practitioner · Cascade, IANPI 1477504124

Payments from drug & device makers

$338in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $18.80 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$172
  • AbbVie$40
  • Biohaven Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$37
  • AstraZeneca$27
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$20
  • Inspire Medical Systems, Inc.$17
  • plus $25 from 2 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$25876%
  • Education$8024%

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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24

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

$338 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 1,346 nurse practitioner providers in Iowa.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$89,857
Medicare patients
227
Services billed
2,514

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
EliquisApixaban193$99,639
XareltoRivaroxaban108$48,506
TrulicityDulaglutide37$35,964
MyrbetriqMirabegron53$19,800
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate17$13,260
JardianceEmpagliflozin24$10,948
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol21$10,814
Potassium Chloride296$6,375
Divalproex Sodium13$5,278
Memantine Hcl123$5,138
Mirtazapine116$3,075
BrilintaTicagrelor18$2,888
Omeprazole294$2,514
Fentanyl11$2,477
Levothyroxine Sodium209$2,146

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
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity$11$35,96437 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$172$19,80053 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Brilinta$27$13,70239 claims
MerckJanuvia$14$13,26017 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 1,346 nurse practitioner providers in Iowa.

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