Who Paid My Doc
Joseph Tu
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Columbus, OH Medical Doctor
NPI 1710109905 CMS profile 122408
543 Taylor Ave, 1St Floor, Columbus, OH 43203
General payments
$4,888
Research payments
$920
Ownership & investment interest
$0
Through program year 2025, Joseph Tu of Columbus, OH is reported in the CMS Open Payments database as having received $4,888 across 131 general payments and $920 in research payments paid 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.
By program year
9 rows| Year | Kind | Relative to this record's peak year | Amount | Records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | General | $633 | 15 | |
| 2024 | General | $915 | 25 | |
| 2023 | General | $585 | 26 | |
| 2022 | General | $724 | 21 | |
| 2021 | General | $704 | 10 | |
| 2021 | Research | $230 | 1 | |
| 2020 | General | $495 | 12 | |
| 2020 | Research | $690 | 2 | |
| 2019 | General | $832 | 22 |
Beside peers
- Joseph Tu
- Ohio median
- Middle half of Ohio
- National median
In program year 2025, general payments to Joseph Tu were reported at $633. Among 40,289 Ohio profiles paid that year, the median was $159 and the middle half received between $47 and $569.
Show as a table
| Year | Joseph Tu | Ohio median | Middle half | National median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | $832 | $166 | $50–$652 | $163 |
| 2020 | $495 | $110 | $33–$367 | $114 |
| 2021 | $704 | $125 | $35–$432 | $132 |
| 2022 | $724 | $141 | $41–$498 | $149 |
| 2023 | $585 | $150 | $43–$522 | $160 |
| 2024 | $915 | $153 | $45–$543 | $164 |
| 2025 | $633 | $159 | $47–$569 | $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 · 42 drugsPart D claims
6,172
Drug cost
$335,918
Branded share of claims
30.1%
| Drug | Type | Relative to their largest | Claims | Drug cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percocet Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 11 | $53,698 | |
| Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen | Brand | 946 | $28,362 | |
| Oxycontin Oxycodone Hcl | Brand | 34 | $27,165 | |
| Buprenorphine | Generic | 52 | $19,923 | |
| Belbuca Buprenorphine Hcl | Brand | 39 | $19,629 | |
| Fentanyl | Generic | 96 | $17,478 | |
| Oxycodone-Acetaminophen Oxycodone Hcl/Acetaminophen | Brand | 502 | $15,187 | |
| Oxycodone Hcl | Generic | 735 | $15,000 | |
| Movantik Naloxegol Oxalate | Brand | 33 | $13,611 | |
| Lidocaine | Generic | 71 | $12,779 |
The 10 drugs with the highest cost, of 42 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 2,732 Part D prescribers listed as Pain Management; they describe a distribution and say nothing about conduct.
Billing to Medicare
Part B · data year 2024 · 57 billing codesPaid by Medicare
$139,372
Medicare patients
486
Services billed
4,144
| Condition among their Medicare patients | Relative to the most common | Share of patients |
|---|---|---|
| Arthritis | 75% | |
| High blood pressure | 73% | |
| Depression | 46% | |
| Ischemic heart disease | 38% | |
| Diabetes | 36% | |
| Chronic kidney disease | 27% | |
| COPD | 24% | |
| Osteoporosis | 23% |
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
134 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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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.