RxDoctor Payments Data

Wassim Shwaiki, MD

Pulmonary Disease · Munster, INNPI 1013115039

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

Almost everything reported here is food and beverage — 99.7% of the total across 786 separate payments, which is the pattern of a clinician who attends manufacturer presentations rather than one with a consulting arrangement. It is spread thinly across 52 manufacturers, the largest accounting for just 18.7% — the pattern of someone who eats at a lot of different presentations.

$15,706in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 786 payments — averaging $19.98 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$3K
  • GSK$2K
  • Mylan Specialty L.p.$1K
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$864
  • Johnson & Johnson$722
  • Regeneron Healthcare Solutions, Inc.$581
  • plus $7K from 46 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$15,662100%
  • Education$440%

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

$15,706 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 258 pulmonary disease providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$511,184
Medicare patients
765
Services billed
4,470

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
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter519$391,409
OfevNintedanib Esylate26$340,546
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol324$152,651
Breztri AerosphereBudesonide/Glycopyr/Formoterol184$130,509
Spiriva RespimatTiotropium Bromide119$73,007
Anoro ElliptaUmeclidinium Brm/Vilanterol Tr96$69,778
NucalaMepolizumab13$47,986
Incruse ElliptaUmeclidinium Bromide109$43,807
XareltoRivaroxaban43$39,119
Stiolto RespimatTiotropium Br/Olodaterol Hcl69$34,517
EliquisApixaban35$29,443
Advair HfaFluticasone Propion/Salmeterol74$27,515
Albuterol Sulfate HfaAlbuterol Sulfate1,327$26,848
Combivent RespimatIpratropium/Albuterol Sulfate34$21,466
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate77$20,747

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
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta, Anoro Ellipta, Nucala, Incruse Ellipta$2,168$708,4761,072 claims
Boehringer IngelheimOfev, Spiriva Respimat, Stiolto Respimat, Combivent Respimat$864$469,536248 claims
AstraZenecaBreztri Aerosphere, Symbicort$2,933$151,257261 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$722$39,11943 claims
PfizerEliquis$84$29,44335 claims
MerckDulera$65$6,91222 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Proair Respiclick$23$2,02613 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 258 pulmonary disease providers in Indiana.

Other pulmonary disease in Munster

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