RxDoctor Payments Data

Albene Kokocinski, MD

Internal Medicine · Chicago, ILNPI 1053346221

Payments from drug & device makers

$5,602in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 272 payments — averaging $20.60 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • AbbVie$951
  • Novo Nordisk$942
  • Pfizer$929
  • Boehringer Ingelheim$366
  • Amgen$346
  • Novartis$315
  • plus $2K from 22 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$5,50398%
  • Education$992%

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

$5,602 in reported general payments places this provider in the 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$84,112
Medicare patients
218
Services billed
834

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
JardianceEmpagliflozin33$40,377
Breo ElliptaFluticasone/Vilanterol13$11,563
Levothyroxine Sodium138$2,107
Atorvastatin Calcium176$1,757
Amlodipine Besylate136$1,621
SynthroidLevothyroxine Sodium31$1,553
Metoprolol Succinate57$1,011
Losartan Potassium108$952
Pantoprazole Sodium38$794
Simvastatin61$744
Lisinopril76$628
Alprazolam73$574
Rosuvastatin Calcium56$567
Hydrochlorothiazide112$557
Omeprazole40$555

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$366$40,37733 claims
GSKBreo Ellipta$64$11,56313 claims
AbbVieSynthroid$951$1,55331 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 90th percentile of 5,182 internal medicine providers in Illinois.

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