RxDoctor Payments Data

Walter Rok

Adolescent Medicine · Fall River, MANPI 1780649467

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Merck accounts for 77.5% of it on its own, with 4 other manufacturers making up the rest. Reporting peaked in 2019 at $1,549 and has fallen 88.9% since, to $172 in 2023.

$1,738in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 26 payments — averaging $66.86 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Merck$1K
  • Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.$180
  • GSK$173
  • Pfizer$23
  • Corium, LLC$15
$2,449,468in research payments, 2019–2025

Across 621 payments — averaging $3944.39 each. Payments tied to a research study. These frequently flow through the physician to a hospital or research institution rather than to the physician personally.

  • Pfizer$708K
  • GSK$660K
  • Merck$573K
  • Modernatx, Inc.$399K
  • Sanofi Pasteur Inc.$110K

What the payments were for

  • Travel & lodging$93254%
  • Food & beverage$80646%

General payments by program year

19
22
23

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
Merck15$1,347
Ironshore Pharmaceuticals Inc.3$180
GSK6$173
Pfizer1$23
Corium, LLC1$15

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

$1,738 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 59 adolescent medicine providers in Massachusetts.

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