RxDoctor Payments Data

Adel Salama, MD

Internal Medicine · Roanoke, VANPI 1003807496

Payments from drug & device makers

$1,239in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 74 payments — averaging $16.75 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AstraZeneca$157
  • Pfizer$150
  • Amarin Pharma, Inc.$135
  • Novo Nordisk$93
  • Corium, LLC$74
  • Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.$62
  • plus $569 from 18 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$1,239100%

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

$1,239 in reported general payments places this provider in the 75th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$177,827
Medicare patients
307
Services billed
2,090

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
EliquisApixaban57$55,593
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate29$44,025
OzempicSemaglutide21$20,745
XareltoRivaroxaban11$17,433
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol17$12,414
VascepaIcosapent Ethyl19$6,475
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol15$6,027
Hydrocodone-AcetaminophenHydrocodone/Acetaminophen93$4,096
LanoxinDigoxin11$2,789
Losartan Potassium249$2,525
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium49$2,425
Atorvastatin Calcium286$2,145
Butalbital-Acetaminophen-CaffeButalb/Acetaminophen/Caffeine15$1,997
Alprazolam234$1,881
Levothyroxine Sodium210$1,802

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$150$55,59357 claims
MerckJanuvia$15$44,02529 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$93$20,74521 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$26$17,43311 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga$157$12,41417 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$15$6,02715 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$14$2,42549 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 75th percentile of 2,724 internal medicine providers in Virginia.

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