RxDoctor Payments Data

Alexander Kessler, MD

Internal Medicine · Canton, GANPI 1518949528

Payments from drug & device makers

$3,326in general payments, 2019–2025

Across 190 payments — averaging $17.51 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.

  • Insmed, Inc.$369
  • Novo Nordisk$326
  • AbbVie$269
  • Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLC$235
  • Merck$185
  • Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc.$164
  • plus $2K from 35 others

What the payments were for

  • Food & beverage$3,19996%
  • Education$1284%

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

$3,326 in reported general payments places this provider in the 80th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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Medicare billing

Part B allowed, 2024
$340,532
Medicare patients
890
Services billed
3,644

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
ArikayceAmikacin Liposomal/Neb.Accessr24$347,750
SerostimSomatropin14$285,869
OzempicSemaglutide191$226,955
BiktarvyBictegrav/Emtricit/Tenofov Ala37$161,543
EliquisApixaban144$141,459
MounjaroTirzepatide60$68,397
JanuviaSitagliptin Phosphate82$53,275
JulucaDolutegravir/Rilpivirine13$52,055
GenvoyaElviteg/Cob/Emtri/Tenof Alafen13$48,693
Daptomycin54$45,799
DescovyEmtricitabine/Tenofov Alafenam13$38,378
GemtesaVibegron40$33,852
RybelsusSemaglutide24$33,402
XareltoRivaroxaban33$32,790
TrulicityDulaglutide34$32,404

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
Insmed, Inc.Arikayce$369$347,75024 claims
Novo NordiskOzempic, Rybelsus$326$260,357215 claims
GileadBiktarvy, Genvoya, Descovy$16$248,61463 claims
PfizerEliquis$162$141,459144 claims
Lilly USA, LLCMounjaro, Trulicity$110$100,80094 claims
MerckJanuvia, Janumet, Janumet Xr$185$82,980118 claims
Viiv Healthcare CompanyJuluca$121$52,05513 claims
AbbVieLinzess, Synthroid, Savella$269$49,639177 claims
Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.Gemtesa$104$33,85240 claims
Johnson & JohnsonXarelto$15$32,79033 claims
Astellas Pharma US IncMyrbetriq$32$28,68139 claims
Sanofi-aventis U.S. LLCSoliqua 100-33$235$25,31119 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 80th percentile of 3,311 internal medicine providers in Georgia.

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