RxDoctor Payments Data

Tarah Ballinger, MD

Hematology & Oncology · Indianapolis, INNPI 1417217639

Payments from drug & device makers

$39,122in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 32 payments — averaging $1222.55 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novartis$15K
  • AstraZeneca$11K
  • Pfizer$10K
  • Tersera Therapeutics LLC$1K
  • Gilead$742
  • Merck$225

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$21,29174%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$5,78620%
  • Travel & lodging$1,2814%
  • Food & beverage$4602%
  • Education$780%

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.

CompanyPaymentsTotal
Novartis13$15,457
AstraZeneca9$11,493
Pfizer3$10,023
Tersera Therapeutics LLC3$1,182
Gilead2$742
Merck2$225

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

$39,122 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 224 hematology & oncology providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$20,513
Medicare patients
126
Services billed
233

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
IbrancePalbociclib48$778,174
KisqaliRibociclib Succinate12$173,852
Anastrozole246$4,617
Exemestane17$3,504
Letrozole78$2,214
Tamoxifen Citrate61$748
Raloxifene Hcl13$508
Meloxicam32$169
Dexamethasone12$165
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl11$165
Pantoprazole Sodium12$160
Gabapentin12$39

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
PfizerIbrance$10,023$778,17448 claims
NovartisKisqali$15,457$173,85212 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 65th percentile of 224 hematology & oncology providers in Indiana.

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