RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Burns, MD

Family Medicine · Tempe, AZNPI 1437154549

Payments from drug & device makers

$526in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 29 payments — averaging $18.14 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$126
  • Boston Scientific$45
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$40
  • Novo Nordisk$37
  • Eisai Inc.$36
  • AstraZeneca$29
  • plus $214 from 12 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$526100%

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

$526 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$19,083
Medicare patients
127
Services billed
530

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
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$22,374
Rosuvastatin Calcium93$1,282
Famotidine27$670
Pantoprazole Sodium28$662
Tamsulosin Hcl18$510
Escitalopram Oxalate27$461
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate16$437
ClopidogrelClopidogrel Bisulfate26$412
Fluoxetine Hcl16$399
Levetiracetam12$389
Duloxetine Hcl13$365
Atorvastatin Calcium31$350
Levothyroxine Sodium31$307
Losartan Potassium37$302
Pravastatin Sodium19$299

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
AstraZenecaFarxiga$29$22,37417 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 60th percentile of 2,099 family medicine providers in Arizona.

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