RxDoctor Payments Data

Theodore Puls, MD

Family Medicine · Pueblo, CONPI 1588643290

Payments from drug & device makers

$335in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 18 payments — averaging $18.64 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Novo Nordisk$72
  • Pfizer$63
  • Amgen$49
  • Exact Sciences$35
  • AstraZeneca$23
  • Astellas Pharma US Inc$23
  • plus $71 from 4 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$335100%

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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25

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

$335 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 2,079 family medicine providers in Colorado.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$63,820
Medicare patients
127
Services billed
681

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
EliquisApixaban33$39,159
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$35,008
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol14$12,796
OzempicSemaglutide12$11,082
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate13$10,629
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate20$8,919
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf35$7,841
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide11$5,613
Fluticasone-SalmeterolFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol16$3,783
Atorvastatin Calcium417$3,727
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac51$3,568
Rosuvastatin Calcium276$2,811
Levothyroxine Sodium197$2,407
Omeprazole124$2,178
Tamsulosin Hcl113$1,740

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
PfizerEliquis$63$39,15933 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$23$21,71534 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$72$11,08212 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 2,079 family medicine providers in Colorado.

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