RxDoctor Payments Data

Adrian Klufas, MD

Internal Medicine · Bridgeport, CTNPI 1396731642

Payments from drug & device makers

$17,224in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 1,049 payments — averaging $16.42 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$4K
  • GSK$2K
  • Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.$2K
  • Pfizer$992
  • AstraZeneca$974
  • ITI, Inc. (d/b/a Intra-cellular Therapies, Inc.)$735
  • plus $6K from 36 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$16,94298%
  • Education$2822%

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

$17,224 in reported general payments places this provider in the 95th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$55,548
Medicare patients
90
Services billed
667

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
LinzessLinaclotide187$122,496
JardianceEmpagliflozin169$116,182
TrulicityDulaglutide109$114,348
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate90$97,110
EliquisApixaban225$93,016
OzempicSemaglutide72$83,464
ActemraTocilizumab16$60,002
FarxigaDapagliflozin Propanediol75$55,473
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen12$52,316
AustedoDeutetrabenazine17$43,206
TradjentaLinagliptin69$42,398
CreonLipase/Protease/Amylase37$41,043
XifaxanRifaximin11$34,834
JanumetSitagliptin Phos/Metformin Hcl45$34,299
MounjaroTirzepatide26$30,163

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
Boehringer IngelheimJardiance, Tradjenta, Jentadueto$376$170,261258 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Creon, Namzaric$4,466$169,959245 claims
Lilly USA, LLCTrulicity, Mounjaro$396$144,511135 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Dulera$703$135,519146 claims
PfizerEliquis$992$93,016225 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic$209$83,46472 claims
AstraZenecaFarxiga, Symbicort$974$71,355135 claims
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Austedo$42$43,20617 claims
GSKTrelegy Ellipta, Breo Ellipta$1,956$38,78067 claims
Salix Pharmaceuticals, A Division Of Bausch Health US, LLCXifaxan$496$34,83411 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$212$29,90333 claims
NovartisEntresto$101$19,52236 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 95th percentile of 2,067 internal medicine providers in Connecticut.

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