RxDoctor Payments Data

Adam Ligler, MD

Internal Medicine · Charlotte, NCNPI 1760708853

Payments from drug & device makers

$783in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 35 payments — averaging $22.36 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Abbott$198
  • Novo Nordisk$134
  • Pfizer$78
  • Nevro Corp.$70
  • Boston Scientific$69
  • Lilly USA, LLC$44
  • plus $189 from 8 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$783100%

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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25

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

$783 in reported general payments places this provider in the 70th percentile of 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$629,596
Medicare patients
449
Services billed
28,969

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
OzempicSemaglutide90$109,003
EliquisApixaban106$91,321
JardianceEmpagliflozin60$81,188
XareltoRivaroxaban22$24,879
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol15$15,582
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol21$9,438
SymbicortBudesonide/Formoterol Fumarate23$8,421
Atorvastatin Calcium592$4,967
ShingrixVaricella-Zoster Ge/As01b/Pf20$4,413
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl12$3,681
Omeprazole246$2,900
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium44$2,883
PaxlovidNirmatrelvir/Ritonavir25$2,859
Boostrix TdapDiphth,pertuss(Acell),tet Vac37$2,572
Tamsulosin Hcl157$2,519

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$134$109,00390 claims
PfizerEliquis, Paxlovid$78$94,180131 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta, Shingrix$19$13,85141 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 3,302 internal medicine providers in North Carolina.

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