Who Paid My Doc
Frank Rhame
Infectious Disease Minneapolis, MN Medical Doctor
NPI 1811959901 CMS profile 82499
1221 W Lake St, Suite 201, Minneapolis, MN 55408
General payments
$131,502
Research payments
$0
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Research they led as principal investigator
$3,024,431
Through program year 2024, Frank Rhame of Minneapolis, MN is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $131,502 across 143 general payments and $0 in research payments paid to them. Separately, studies naming them as principal investigator received $3,024,431 in research payments, paid to institutions rather than to them.
No combined total General, research and ownership are kept apart. Each is reported under its own rules, and ownership is not money that moved at all but the value of a stake held. A meal, a clinical trial grant and a shareholding do not add up to anything meaningful, so this site does not add them. The principal-investigator line is research money paid to institutions for studies they led — not to them — and is not added to anything either.
General payments for this record sit in the 97th percentile of Infectious Disease profiles with reported payments. Percentile describes the distribution, not the conduct.
By program year
5 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | General | $1,925 | 1 | |
| 2022 | General | $6,953 | 4 | |
| 2021 | General | $14,342 | 17 | |
| 2020 | General | $21,157 | 15 | |
| 2019 | General | $87,125 | 106 |
Beside peers
- Frank Rhame
- Infectious Disease median
- Middle half of Infectious Disease
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Frank Rhame were reported at $0. Among 3,905 Infectious Disease profiles paid that year, the median was $188 and the middle half received between $57 and $766.
Show as a table
| Year | Frank Rhame | Infectious Disease median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $87,125 | $190 | $60–$862 | $163 |
| 2020 | $21,157 | $124 | $32–$606 | $114 |
| 2021 | $14,342 | $148 | $38–$905 | $132 |
| 2022 | $6,953 | $166 | $50–$834 | $149 |
| 2023 | $0 | $171 | $57–$787 | $160 |
| 2024 | $1,925 | $176 | $52–$752 | $164 |
| 2025 | $0 | $188 | $57–$766 | $169 |
Breakdown
A payment can name more than one product, so these amounts overlap and do not add up to the general-payment figure.
Prescribing to Medicare patients
Part D · data year 2024 · 90 drugsPart D claims
3,453
Drug cost
$4,361,353
Branded share of claims
46.9%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biktarvy Bictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala | Brand | 276 | $1,130,148 | |
| Genvoya Elviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen | Brand | 199 | $823,670 | |
| Odefsey Emtricitab/Rilpiviri/Tenof Ala | Brand | 156 | $640,623 | |
| Dovato Dolutegravir Sodium/Lamivudine | Brand | 177 | $562,061 | |
| Tivicay Dolutegravir Sodium | Brand | 138 | $316,554 | |
| Descovy Emtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam | Brand | 131 | $297,401 | |
| Juluca Dolutegravir/Rilpivirine | Brand | 67 | $267,751 | |
| Triumeq Abacavir/Dolutegravir/Lamivudi | Brand | 33 | $125,613 | |
| Isentress Raltegravir Potassium | Brand | 26 | $55,290 | |
| Ozempic Semaglutide | Brand | 33 | $33,335 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 90 counted.
Drug cost is what was paid for the drugs at the pharmacy — by Medicare, the patient and others — and is not money to the prescriber. Medicare Part D only: drugs dispensed to Medicare beneficiaries. A drug with fewer than 11 claims for this prescriber is not published, so a missing drug does not mean zero. The medians are for the 5,546 Part D prescribers listed as Infectious Disease; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 82 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$55,655
Medicare patients
98
Services billed
2,410
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| High blood pressure | 52% | |
| Depression | 41% | |
| Arthritis | 37% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 31% | |
| Diabetes | 26% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 20% | |
| COPD | 18% | |
| Heart failure | 17% |
| Drug given in the clinic | Where | Patients | Services | Paid by Medicare |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sarscov2 vac 50 mcg/0.5ml im 91322 | Office | 16 | 16 | $2,326 |
Medicare Part B only: services billed to Medicare. Rows covering fewer than 11 beneficiaries are not published. Only drugs given in the clinic are itemised here; the rest of what this provider billed is in the total above.
Records
143 reportedEvery payment, record by record
Date, company, amount, what it was for and the product named — filter by year, kind and company, or download as CSV.
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Every practitioner in the state with a reported payment.
How to read this page
What each amount means, and what it does not mean.
What this means
U.S. law requires drug and medical device manufacturers to report payments and transfers of value they make to physicians and teaching hospitals. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services publishes that record each year. This page shows what was reported about this person, and nothing else.
An ownership interest is different from the other two. It is not a payment: it is a stake — shares, options, a partnership holding — that a physician or an immediate family member held in a manufacturer during that year. The figure shown is what the stake was reported to be worth.
Research payments frequently pass through a clinician to the institution running a trial, and rarely represent personal income. They should be read differently from general payments.