RxDoctor Payments Data

Suzanne Blasko, MD

Family Medicine · Ligonier, PANPI 1548215890

Payments from drug & device makers

$669in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 57 payments — averaging $11.74 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • GSK$231
  • Merck$87
  • Novo Nordisk$55
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$45
  • AstraZeneca$43
  • Pfizer$40
  • plus $168 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$66299%
  • Education$81%

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

$669 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$56,142
Medicare patients
130
Services billed
838

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
OzempicSemaglutide79$77,883
EliquisApixaban67$58,800
JardianceEmpagliflozin61$44,908
TrulicityDulaglutide22$21,897
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol27$16,963
MounjaroTirzepatide11$11,893
MyrbetriqMirabegron12$7,734
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog29$4,033
Fentanyl12$2,904
Atorvastatin Calcium178$2,479
Gabapentin68$2,138
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium16$1,698
Levothyroxine Sodium150$1,639
Midodrine Hcl25$1,625
Duloxetine Hcl100$1,472

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$55$77,88379 claims
PfizerEliquis$40$58,80067 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$37$33,79033 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$231$16,96327 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$16$7,73412 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$17$1,69816 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 4,967 family medicine providers in Pennsylvania.

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