RxDoctor Payments Data

Thomas Franz, MD

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation · Pittsburgh, PANPI 1629008172

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

This record is dominated by gifts: $2,905 of the $3,614 with a category attached, or 80.4%. MDD US Operations, LLC accounts for 80.5% of it on its own, with 10 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $3,581 and has fallen 99.5% since, to $18 in 2022.

$3,614in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 20 payments — averaging $180.72 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • MDD US Operations, LLC$3K
  • Medtronic$478
  • AbbVie$46
  • Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.$42
  • Lilly USA, LLC$36
  • Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.$23
  • plus $81 from 5 others

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$2908%
  • Food & beverage$42012%
  • Gifts$2,90580%

General payments by program year

19
20
22

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
MDD US Operations, LLC4$2,908
Medtronic4$478
AbbVie(2 entities)3$46
Electronic Waveform Lab, Inc.1$42
Lilly USA, LLC2$36
Neurocrine Biosciences, Inc.1$23
Sentynl Therapeutics, Inc.1$19
Pfizer1$17
Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc.1$17
Promius Pharma LLC1$15
Scilex Pharmaceuticals Inc.1$12

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

$3,614 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$134,734
Medicare patients
150
Services billed
13,723

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
BotoxOnabotulinumtoxina13$26,245
JardianceEmpagliflozin35$20,680
Fondaparinux Sodium11$19,909
RybelsusSemaglutide15$15,199
EliquisApixaban19$14,371
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$9,014
Methylphenidate ErMethylphenidate Hcl45$6,822
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl11$6,016
Protriptyline Hcl16$5,756
Divalproex Sodium ErDivalproex Sodium75$5,690
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen150$4,526
Venlafaxine Hcl ErVenlafaxine Hcl201$4,198
Clozapine26$3,993
Lamotrigine219$3,697
Baclofen125$2,906

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
AbbVieBotox$46$26,24513 claims
PfizerEliquis$17$14,37119 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 550 physical medicine & rehabilitation providers in Pennsylvania.

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