RxDoctor Payments Data

Tonia Ackerman

Family · West Des Moines, IANPI 1932142692

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (47.4%), speaking fees and travel and lodging — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 26 manufacturers reported payments, led by AbbVie at 54.3% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $10,902, 7.4 times the $1,470 reported in 2021. Among family clinicians in IA with any reported payments, this total sits in the top 5% — high for the specialty, which is a reason to read the composition above rather than the number alone.

$17,333in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 412 payments — averaging $42.07 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$9K
  • Johnson & Johnson$1K
  • Sanofi$962
  • UCB, Inc.$700
  • E.r. Squibb & Sons, L.L.C.$694
  • Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Inc.$538
  • plus $4K from 20 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$7004%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$6,05035%
  • Travel & lodging$1,70710%
  • Food & beverage$8,21747%
  • Education$6594%

General payments by program year

21
22
23
24
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.

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

$17,333 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 1,268 family providers in Iowa.

See all family providers in Iowa

Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$115,990
Medicare patients
644
Services billed
2,581

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
Clobetasol Propionate128$7,131
Metronidazole40$2,169
Triamcinolone Acetonide114$1,440
Ketoconazole106$1,340
Betamethasone Dipropionate22$1,231
Fluocinonide27$1,217
Clindamycin Phosphate20$759
CiclopiroxCiclopirox Olamine33$623
Doxycycline Hyclate27$541
Doxycycline Monohydrate20$487
Hydrocortisone67$320
Minocycline Hcl12$288
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl16$277
Mupirocin29$270
Spironolactone24$178

Paid to pharmacies, not to this prescriber.

Other family in West Des Moines

See the full list for Iowa

Where these figures come from

Is this you, or does something look wrong? →