RxDoctor Payments Data

Vandana Sharma, MD

Neurology · Falls Church, VANPI 1114061173

Payments from drug & device makers

$6,586in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 311 payments — averaging $21.18 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Lilly USA, LLC$613
  • Harmony Biosciences LLC$547
  • UCB, Inc.$476
  • Novartis$470
  • AbbVie$453
  • EMD Serono, Inc.$435
  • plus $4K from 34 others

What the payments were for

  • Speaking & faculty fees$130%
  • Food & beverage$6,37597%
  • Education$1983%

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.

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

$6,586 in reported general payments places this provider in the 65th percentile of 474 neurology providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$109,805
Medicare patients
200
Services billed
642

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
AptiomEslicarbazepine Acetate30$75,299
Levetiracetam73$3,689
Rasagiline Mesylate17$3,162
Gabapentin174$3,003
Divalproex Sodium23$2,141
Memantine Hcl53$1,994
Pramipexole DihydrochloridePramipexole Di-Hcl92$1,839
Carbamazepine19$1,476
Baclofen23$1,465
Phenobarbital42$1,199
Quetiapine Fumarate30$1,040
Lamotrigine36$1,012
Donepezil Hcl82$1,006
Phenytoin Sodium Extended28$1,002
Carbidopa-LevodopaCarbidopa/Levodopa62$832

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
Upsher-smith Laboratories LLCTopiramate$111$56927 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 474 neurology providers in Virginia.

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