RxDoctor Payments Data

William Pierce, MD

Family Medicine · Merrillville, INNPI 1497838593

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,030in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 59 payments — averaging $17.46 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Pfizer$184
  • Novartis$138
  • Merck$87
  • AbbVie$76
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$69
  • AstraZeneca$67
  • plus $409 from 13 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,00998%
  • Education$212%

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.

How this compares

$1,030 in reported general payments places this provider in the 60th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$127,492
Medicare patients
265
Services billed
1,287

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
OxycontinOxycodone Hcl24$24,459
OzempicSemaglutide20$23,980
EliquisApixaban23$21,500
XareltoRivaroxaban19$18,545
Trelegy ElliptaFluticasone/Umeclidin/Vilanter12$11,052
TrulicityDulaglutide11$10,400
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen311$7,689
Ondansetron Hcl14$7,510
Oxycodone-AcetaminophenOxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen249$6,143
Lantus SolostarInsulin Glargine,hum.Rec.Anlog31$3,735
Levothyroxine Sodium185$2,082
Oxycodone Hcl58$1,503
Celecoxib21$1,339
Gabapentin116$1,311
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium18$1,264

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
Novo NordiskOzempic$28$23,98020 claims
PfizerEliquis$184$21,50023 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$67$18,54519 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$76$1,26418 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 60th percentile of 2,709 family medicine providers in Indiana.

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