RxDoctor Payments Data

Waylon Steele

Family · Reading, PANPI 1730627944

Payments from drug & device makers

What this record shows

The money is spread across several categories — food and beverage (51.9%), speaking fees and consulting fees — rather than concentrated in one kind of arrangement. 30 manufacturers reported payments, led by Galderma Laboratories, L.p. at 45.1% of the total. 2025 is the largest year on record at $5,820, 3.7 times the $1,572 reported in 2021. Among family clinicians in PA 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.

$14,570in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 438 payments — averaging $33.26 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Galderma Laboratories, L.p.$7K
  • Johnson & Johnson$4K
  • AbbVie$914
  • Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc.$594
  • Novartis$357
  • UCB, Inc.$239
  • plus $2K from 24 others

What the payments were for

  • Consulting fees$2,26316%
  • Speaking & faculty fees$4,35030%
  • Food & beverage$7,55752%
  • Education$4013%

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

$14,570 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 4,717 family providers in Pennsylvania.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$246,411
Medicare patients
815
Services billed
4,321

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
OtezlaApremilast12$60,166
Betamethasone Diprop AugmentedBetamethasone/Propylene Glyc246$3,765
Ketoconazole115$2,819
Fluorouracil19$1,258
Metronidazole18$1,232
Triamcinolone Acetonide87$1,172
Imiquimod25$711
Clobetasol Propionate21$500
ValacyclovirValacyclovir Hcl20$431
Doxycycline Hyclate14$422
Mupirocin43$295
Ammonium Lactate13$224
Finasteride15$203
Hydrocortisone41$132
Dutasteride12$49

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
AmgenOtezla$29$60,16612 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 95th percentile of 4,717 family providers in Pennsylvania.

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