RxDoctor Payments Data

Aaron Goldberg, MD

Internal Medicine · Baltimore, MDNPI 1104836345

Payments from drug & device makers

$953in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 46 payments — averaging $20.71 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Amgen$131
  • Lilly USA, LLC$116
  • Sanofi$98
  • Pfizer$89
  • Novartis$88
  • Merck$70
  • plus $361 from 11 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$953100%

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

$953 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$310,756
Medicare patients
418
Services billed
4,787

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
EliquisApixaban74$112,776
OzempicSemaglutide49$89,304
Repatha SureclickEvolocumab48$46,972
JardianceEmpagliflozin38$36,575
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate26$34,705
XareltoRivaroxaban19$26,674
MounjaroTirzepatide19$22,065
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol20$11,754
Esomeprazole Magnesium90$7,874
LinzessLinaclotide11$7,139
Atorvastatin Calcium462$6,839
TradjentaLinagliptin12$6,694
Rosuvastatin Calcium243$6,546
Metoprolol Succinate182$3,394
Lacosamide13$3,298

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
PfizerEliquis$89$112,77674 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$59$89,30449 claims
MerckJanuvia$70$34,70526 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$26$26,67419 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro$116$22,06519 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$14$11,75420 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid$69$10,10166 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 70th percentile of 2,979 internal medicine providers in Maryland.

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