RxDoctor Payments Data

Steven Scherer, MD

Neurology · Philadelphia, PANPI 1003840729

Payments from drug & device makers

$111,481in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 21 payments — averaging $5308.62 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Applied Therapeutics, Inc.$73K
  • Eli Lilly$29K
  • Pfizer$9K
  • Argenx US, Inc.$40
$4,600in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 2 payments — averaging $2300.00 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.

  • Pfizer$5K

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$41,021100%
  • Food & beverage$400%

General payments by program year

21
22
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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Applied Therapeutics, Inc.4$72,975
Eli Lilly14$29,167
Pfizer2$9,300
Argenx US, Inc.1$40

How this compares

$111,481 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 941 neurology providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$17,742
Medicare patients
123
Services billed
175

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
LyricaPregabalin14$9,913
Gabapentin91$2,123
Oxycodone Hcl12$426
Duloxetine Hcl18$387
Tramadol Hcl18$207
Azathioprine11$163
Pregabalin15$62

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
PfizerLyrica$9,300$9,91314 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 85th percentile of 941 neurology providers in Pennsylvania.

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